European Integration and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games: The Eu Overseas Countries and Territories

ISBN-13: 9780415657273 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 252 str.

Rebecca Adler-Nissen; Ulrik Pram Gad

Opis

Focusing on a group of micro-polities associated with the European Union, this text offers a new understanding of international relations in the context of modern sovereignty. It presents a systematic and comparative analysis of the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs), the EU and the four affected Member States - UK, France, the Netherlands and Denmark.

Spis treści

1.Introduction: Postcolonial Sovereignty Games Ulrik Pram Gad and Rebecca Adler-Nissen 2. Postcolonial Sovereignty: Experimentation with Statehood and Self-Determination Siba N. Grovogui 3. Late Sovereignty Postintegration Europe: Continuity and Change in a Constitutive Concept Cormac Mac Amhlaigh 4. The Micropolity Sovereignty Experience: Decolonizing, but not Disengaging Godfrey Baldacchino 5. European Union: Facilitating the OCTs in Brussels Ida Hannibal, Kristine Holst, Ulrik Pram Gad, and Rebecca Adler-Nissen 6. British conceptions of state, identity, and sovereignty: Shifting global contexts Ulf Hedetoft 7. Symbiotic Sovereignties: The Untold Story of the British Overseas Territories Ronen Palan 8. Sovereignty Games and Global Finance: The Cayman Islands William Vlcek 9. Jurisdiction in Dialect: Sovereignty Games in the British Virgin Islands Bill Maurer 10. French Concepts of State: Nation, ‘Country’ (Patrie), and the Overseas Ulla Holm 11. Will the EU and the euro lead to More Sovereignty? French Polynesia Bernard Poirine 12. Negotiating Postcolonial Identities in the Shadow of the EU: New Caledonia Peter Brown 13. Between Europe and Africa: Mayotte Karis Muller 14. Postcolonial Sovereignty Games with Europe in the Margins: The Netherlands, the Antilles, and Europe Gert Oostindie 15. Greenland Projecting Sovereignty: Denmark Protecting Sovereignty Away Ulrik Pram Gad 16. Conclusion: When European and Postcolonial Studies Meet Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Ulrik Pram Gad

O autorze

Rebecca Adler-Nissen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Ulrik Pram Gad is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Security Studies (CAST), University of Copenhagen, Denmark.