Island Enclaves: Offshoring Strategies, Creative Governance, and Subnational Island Jurisdictions

by Godfrey Baldacchino

2021-01-02 22:43:23

Examining subnational island jurisdictions such as Guantánamo Bay, Macau, Aruba, the Isle of Man, and Prince Edward Island, Godfrey Baldacchino shows how these distinct locales arrange special relationships with larger metropolitan powers. He also d... Read more
Examining subnational island jurisdictions such as Guantánamo Bay, Macau, Aruba, the Isle of Man, and Prince Edward Island, Godfrey Baldacchino shows how these distinct locales arrange special relationships with larger metropolitan powers. He also deals with the politics, economics, and diplomacy of islands that have been engineered as detention camps, offshore finance centres, military bases, heritage parks, or otherwise autonomous regions. More than a study of how detached regions are governed, Island Enclaves displays the ways in which these jurisdictions are pioneering some of the modern world''s most creative - and shadowy - forms of sovereignty and government.
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File size9.1 X 6.3 X 1 in
Print pages336
PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date August 1, 2010
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780773537439
Godfrey Baldacchino is Professor of Sociology at the University of Malta; UNESCO Co-Chair (Island Studies and Sustainability) at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada; President of the Intern...

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