summary If you are looking to understand how tax havens and offshore financial centers
work, how they are governed (or not!), and what kind of economic and political impacts they …

Purpose This paper offers a critical review of climate change related initiatives in small
island states, including Small Island Develo** States (SIDS), which can end up as …

The world's sub-national, island (or mainly island) jurisdictions constitute a timely, valid, and
valuable category of political and economic analysis. On the basis of a global, largely …

Populism and the personalization of politics appears to be threatening the existence of
democracy as we know it all over the world. It is now more important than ever to understand …

Many scholarly analyses of small economies over the past two decades have been
premised on the implicit understanding that a state's small population size, compounded by …

This study presents a detailed literature review on economic vulnerability and resilience with
a focus on small states. It also proposes a revised vulnerability/resilience framework …

Being on the edge, being out of sight and so out of mind, exposes the weakness of
mainstream ideas, orthodoxies, and paradigms and foments alternatives to the status quo …

Regional, national and global cities are disproportionately located on small islands and
archipelagos. The 'spatial turn'within island and urban geography increasingly privileges …

In this chapter we build on the observation that island economies, and especially small ones
(population below one million), exhibit a remarkably wide range of economic structures built …

For a great majority of former colonies, the outcome of decolonization was independence.
Yet scattered across the globe, remnants of former colonial empires are still non-sovereign …