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Island Enclaves

Offshoring Strategies, Creative Governance, and Subnational Island Jurisdictions

Godfrey Baldacchino author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press

Published:1st Aug '10

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An examination of the unique governance of islands and their role in contemporary global politics.

Examining subnational island jurisdictions such as Guantanamo 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.

"This book develops an original thesis: it argues cogently for the existence of sub-national island jurisdictions as a specific set of policies that exploit the current phase of globalisation and their geographies to practise a clever use of jurisdiction." Paul K. Sutton, London Metropolitan University, U.K. "This book provides a striking array of examples to illustrate 'offshoring strategies' deployed more easily by non-sovereign island territories because of their amorphous political status resulting from their relatively small and insular character, as wel "The book is as luxuriant (with ideas) as some of the tropical islands are (with flora) that feature within it [...] this is a rather pathbreaking and encyclopaedic text - one that can be dipped into at any point and that equally rewards reading from cove

ISBN: 9780773537439

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336 pages