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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. Perhaps such ideas developed because we are implicitly aware of the unique political and social arrangements that can be designed when a region is so distinctly separate. Island Enclaves highlights the idiosyncratic forms of governance that occur in places that are both a part of, and apart from, national boundaries.

Examining subnational island jurisdictions such as Guantnamo 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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Title Island Enclaves: Offshoring Strategies, Creative Governance, and Subnational Island Jurisdictions
Author Godfrey Baldacchino
Binding Paperback
Pages 336
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date 2010-07
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780773537439 / 0773537430
Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm)
Category Politics / Current Events
Library of Congress subjects Economic development, Jurisdiction, Territorial
Dewey Decimal Code 338.900

About the author

Godfrey Baldacchino is a professor of sociology and Canada Research Chair in Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island.

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