Abstract
AbstractThis chapter focuses on the relationship between independence and economic development in small communities. The inability of independent small states to achieve self-sufficiency is the main reason the international community was hostile to their creation and explains why decolonization was often delayed. Perceptions of viability shifted during the second half of the twentieth century but with the partial exception of tourism, virtually all strategies to address economic disadvantage in small states in the Caribbean and the Pacific involve sovereignty sales or migration. Small states are thus perpetually engaged in a cycle of claiming sovereignty so they can trade it or pool it for economic returns that increase functional viability.
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