Add to ORKGOn the tenth day of the tenth month of 2010, the Netherlands Antilles - consisting of four and a half islands - were formally dissolved; in their place, two territories, Curacao and Saint Maartin, graduated to autonomy status, joining another, already autonomous territory (Aruba); while the remaining three - Bonaire, Saba, and St Eustatius - were realigned as 'special municipalities' of the Netherlands. None of the five erstwhile colonies opted for independence, although that option was manifestly available (see Oostindie, this volume). We should not be surprised.peer-reviewe
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The Dismantlement of the Netherlands Antilles: How Autonomy is More Viable than Independence by Came...
This paper discusses the contemporary sovereignty experience of small states and territories in the...
The emergence of a new category of states made of only small islands is a relatively recent phenomen...
I thank Godfrey Baldacchino and David Milne for their stimulating criticism on earlier drafts of th...
When East Timor achieved sovereignty on 20 May 2002, the ceremony marked not only the end of an ago...
This paper hypothesizes that small islands provide a number of lessons in the political economy of d...
Upon the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010, the smallest islands in this federation – ...
For a great majority of former colonies, the outcome of decolonization was independence. Yet scatter...
Local autonomy in a subnational jurisdiction is more likely to be gained, secured or enhanced where ...
The Netherlands Antilles and Aruba are still tied to the Netherlands through the Charter for the Kin...
Whereas political scientists tend to make binary distinctions between sovereign states and subnation...
Much has been written on the post-war decolonisation in the Caribbean, but rarely from a truly compa...
Analyses of the Caribbean continue to divide the region based on colonial heritage, which is largely...
Why has the postwar march to independence stalled among small tropical islands? Why do dependent is...
This article originated as a paper presented at the Pacific Regional Seminar, Port Moresby, Papua Ne...
The Dismantlement of the Netherlands Antilles: How Autonomy is More Viable than Independence by Came...
This paper discusses the contemporary sovereignty experience of small states and territories in the...
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