The Case for Non-Sovereignty: Lessons from Sub-National Island Jurisdictions

ISBN-13: 9780415455503 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 192 str.

Godfrey Baldacchino;David Milne

Opis

Territories like American Samoa, Anguilla, Aruba, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands and the Faroes are sub-national island jurisdictions (SNIJs). They all share some measure of autonomous government, and are easily construed as independent states-in-waiting. Yet, most of these territories exhibit no urgency to become independent. Instead, they appear to have decided that there are political and economic benefits accruing today when island territories are autonomous but not sovereign. In an uncertain world, a substantial degree of autonomy, respect and protection for local culture and identity, reasonable provision of employment opportunities, welfare and security by a larger and benign metropolitan state, have collectively weakened most local thrusts for independence. In spite of the mandate of the United Nations Committee on Decolonisation, there is a strong case to be made today for non-sovereignty, and it is the SNIJs that provide clear evidence.

Spis treści

1. Exploring Sub-National Island Jurisdictions 2. Island Jurisdictions in Comparative Constitutional Perspective 3. The Advantages of Political Affiliation: Dependent & Independent Small Island Profiles 4. In or Out: Sub-National Island Jurisdictions and the Antechamber of  Paradiplomacy. 5. Island Disaster Paradiplomacy in the Commonwealth. 6. Isolation as disability and resource: considering sub-national island status in the constitution of the ‘New Tasmania’ 7. Unitary State, Devolution, Autonomy, Secession: State Building and Nation Building in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea 8. Dependence and Autonomy in Sub-National Island Jurisdictions: The Case of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. 9. The Rise and Fall of Sub-National Island Jurisdictions: The Cases of San Andrés y Providencia and the Galápagos Islands. 10. ‘We are not ready’: Colonialism or Autonomy in Tokelau

O autorze

Godfrey Baldacchino is an international authority on Island Studies, and the second Canada Research Chair at University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.