The political geography of the Caribbean no longer corresponds to that of the sixties. Insularity, different cultures, colonialism and balkanization of the West Indian World into 23 political territories have fragmented it. The failure of a federal solution in the British West Indies has been the principal cause behind this territorial pulverization. Spilling over into a strictly maritime domain, the political partitioning of the West Indian world, by the application of a 200 miles offshore economic zone limit, has fed the regionalization of the Caribbean. Actually, the French, American and Dutch West Indies appear to be united without a purpose. The Caricom common market, which encompasses the new young states born of the defunct British West Indies, is not living up to its hopes. Finally, in the absence of an integrating West Indianness, the Caribbean is and remains nothing else but a geographical name. It is a living contrast to the idea that « small is beautiful ».