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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xxxi, 301 pages) : illustrations, maps, digital fileContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773586581
  • 077358658X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Island Enclaves : Offshoring Strategies, Creative Governance, and Subnational Island Jurisdictions.DDC classification:
  • 338.900914/2 22
LOC classification:
  • HC59.7 .B294 2010eb
Online resources:
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-280), filmography (p. 280) , and index.

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.

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.

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