TY - BOOK AU - Cooper,Andrew Fenton TI - Internet gambling offshore: Caribbean struggles over casino capitalism T2 - International political economy series SN - 023029345X AV - HV6722.C27 C66 2011 U1 - 338.4779502854678 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Gambling industry KW - Caribbean Area KW - Internet gambling KW - Foreign economic relations KW - United States N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: reconfiguring casino capitalism -- Virtual vice or innovative virtue? -- The US takes a hard line: stigmatizing the internet gambling industry -- Antigua responds: the commercialization of diplomacy -- Taking the struggle (through the WTO) to the US -- The global reach of the "Big Chill" on internet gambling -- The big implications of a small but straddling case N2 - "In the aftermath of the financial crisis, Cooper locates the WTO-focused struggle between the United States and the very small island state of Antigua on Internet gambling in the wider International Political Economy. He draws connections between gambling and offshore and/or enclave cultures and points out the stigmatization of "Casino Capitalism.""-- ER -