Recent Publications: Puerto Rico

Ask yourself why you are reading a review of a book about a colony called Puerto Rico in a journal on international law. Isn\u27t Puerto Rico a self-governing Commonwealth? Isn\u27t it part of the United States? If you decide to buy the book, ask yourself where in the bookstore you should look for it. In the international relations section? The U.S. history section? A turn-of-the-century Supreme Court case analyzing the status of Puerto Rico (and other territories acquired by the United States in 1901) may provide some guidance: Puerto Rico is foreign in a domestic sense. \u27 Perhaps the bookstore has a section on not really foreign countries or more-or-less domestic territories. Try using other phrases that have described Puerto Rico over the past century to refine your search: Possession. \u27A sort of an autonomous dependency\u27 (p. 105). Unique. You may have to go to the information desk