Beschreibung:
The authors investigate the exceptional political economy of the ten inhabited islands whose territory is divided amongst two or more countries: that are unitary geographical spaces but fragmented polities.
1. Introduction: Only Ten: Islands as Uncomfortable Fragmented Polities; Godfrey Baldacchino 2. Islands as Paradoxical Spaces; Stewart Williams 3. New Guinea; Ron May, Evangelia Papoutsaki & Patrick Matbob 4. Borneo (and Sebatik); Taufiq Tanasaldy 5. Timor; Anthony Soares 6. Cyprus; Ahmet Sözen 7. Ireland; Stephen A. Royle 8. Usedom / Uznam; Maciej J?drusik 9. Hispaniola; Marie Redon 10. Sint Maarten / St Martin; Steven Hillebrink 11. Tierra del Fuego; Peter van Aert 12. Bolshoi Ussuriiski / Heixiazi; Akihiro Iwashita 13. Britain: the Fractured Island; Ray Burnett