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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, (c)2010.; (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012).Description: 1 online resource (xxxi, 301 pages) : illustrations, maps, digital fileContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773586581
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HC59 .I853 2010
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Contents:
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.
Subject: 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 bibliographies 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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