[PDF] African Islands And Enclaves eBook

Author : Robin Cohen
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 1983-05
Category : History
ISBN :

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As history has shown, remote islands or small states can be flashpoints for international crises. This collection of commissioned essays examines African countries that, because of their seeming insignificance, have been passed over in recent scholarship. The essays focus on current political and economic issues. Why do such states find it difficult to sustain stable economic and political orders? The role of such countries in international trade; the effects of their small size, remoteness, or paucity of resources; and their use as military bases for other powers are among the subjects discussed.

Author : Robin Cohen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 2024-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1040020895

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Small territories and islands are significant flashpoints in the contemporary world order. They are both exposed to the vicissitudes of international power rivalries and can find it difficult to sustain a stable internal political and economic order. Originally published in 1983 this book provides a balance between enclaves and islands, between Indian and Atlantic Ocean territories and between territories that were self-governing and those that were still integrated into metropolitan political units. Each of the authors shares a close familiarity with the territories they surveyed: one that goes into a direct and sometimes brutal appreciation of the difficulties and realities of constructing a modern life in such limiting contexts

Author : Godfrey Baldacchino
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 077358658X

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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.

Author : Beth S. Rabinowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108359434

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State development in Africa is risky, even life-threatening. Heads of state must weigh the advantage of promoting political and economic development against the risk of fortifying dangerous political rivals. This book takes a novel approach to the study of neopatrimonial rule by placing security concerns at the center of state-building. Using quantitative evidence from 44 African countries and in-depth case studies of Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire, Rabinowitz demonstrates that the insecurities of the African state make strategically aligning with rural leaders critical to political success. Leaders who cultivate the goodwill of the countryside are better able to endure sporadic urban unrest, subdue political challengers, minimize ethnic and regional discord, and prevent a military uprising. Such regimes are more likely to build infrastructure needed for economic and political development. In so doing, Rabinowitz upends the long-held assumption that African leaders must cater to urban constituents to secure their rule.

Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 1474 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9781857431834

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A definitive one-volume guide to all sub-Saharan African countries, providing invaluable economic and directory data.

Author : E.G. Archer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136005501

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The principal argument in Gibraltar and Empire is that Gibraltarians constitute a separate and distinctive people, notwithstanding the political stance taken by the government of Spain. Various factors - environmental, ethnic, economic, political, religious, linguistic, educational and informal - are adduced to explain the emergence of a sense of community on the Rock and an attachment to the United Kingdom. A secondary argument is that the British empire has left its mark in Gibraltar in various forms - such as militarily - and for a number of reasons. Gilbraltar and Empire's exploration of the manifold reasons why the Gibraltarians have bucked the trend in the history of decolonization comes at a time when the issues in question have come to the fore in diplomatic and political areas.

Author : Michael Pacione
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 35,64 MB
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136865977

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First published in 1988, this reissue presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary developments and research into the geography of the Third World, at a time when economies and societies there were changing at a much more rapid rate than their counterparts in the developing world. It covers the topic both systematically and by region, showing how the unique background of each region affects developments there.

Author : Robert Aldrich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 1998-07-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 052141461X

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This comprehensive and authoritative book is about the last colonies, those remaining territories formally dependent on metropolitan powers. It discusses the surprisingly large number of these territories, mainly small isolated islands with limited resources. Yet these places are not as obscure as might be expected. They may be major tourist destinations, military bases, satellite tracking stations, tax havens or desolate, underpopulated spots that can become international flashpoints, such as the Falklands. The authors find that at a time of escalating nationalism and globalization, these remnants of empire provide insights into the meanings of political, economic, legal and cultural independence, as well as sovereignty and nationhood. This book provides a broad-based and provocative discussion of colonialism and interdependence in the modern world, from a unique perspective.

Author : Jamie Trinidad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 110841818X

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Analyzes the role of self-determination and territorial integrity in some of the most difficult decolonization cases.

Author : Jim C. Harper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 2005-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1135512809

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Western-educated Elites in Kenya, proposes to conduct a critical examination of the emergence of the American-educated Kenyan elites (the Asomi) and their role in the nationalist movement and eventually their Africanization of the Civil and Private sectors in Kenya.