Statehood À La Carte in the Caribbean and the Pacific: Secession, Regionalism, and Postcolonial Politics

by Jack Corbett

This book explains how leaders in the Caribbean and Pacific regions balance the autonomy-viability dilemma of postcolonial statehood - that political self-determination is a hollow achievement unless it is accompanied by economic development - by practising statehood la carte. Previous research has focused on the pursuit of decolonial self-determination through and above the nation state, via regionalism and internationalism, or by creating non-sovereign...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192864246
• ISBN13: 9780192864246
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"