Island enclaves : offshoring strategies, creative governance, and subnational island jurisdictions / Godfrey Baldacchino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baldacchino, Godfrey.

Series:

Central Problems of Philosophy ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islands--Economic conditions.

Islands.

Islands--Politics and government.

Jurisdiction, Territorial.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Islands have a unique hold on our imagination as intriguing places where - as Thomas More and Jonathan Swift showed in their fiction - fantastic utopic or dystopic worlds are possible. This book highlights the idiosyncratic forms of governance that occur in places that are both a part of, and apart from, national boundaries.

Contents:

Autonomy without Sovereignty: An "Island Studies" Approach

Borders within Borders and the New Offshoring

Island Subnationalism and "Upside Down" Decolonization

A Review of Economic Performance: Tapping the Hinterland Beyond

Patterns of Creative Governance for Development

Offshoring Strategies: Lessons from Subnational Island Jurisdictions

Island Paradiplomacy and Smaller Island State Diplomacy Compared

Environmental Policies and Politics: Economic versus Ecological Development Strategies

An Enduring "Rich Seam" of Jurisdictional Capacity

Appendix.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-8658-X

OCLC:

806255309