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Statehood à la Carte in the Caribbean and the Pacific - Secession, Regionalism, and Postcolonial Politics (Hardcover)
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Statehood à la Carte in the Caribbean and the Pacific - Secession, Regionalism, and Postcolonial Politics (Hardcover)
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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
à 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
alternatives to it. This book looks at how communities have sought
the same goals below the state, including via secession and
devolution. Downsizing is typically portrayed as the antithesis of
progressive, cosmopolitan internationalism and employed as evidence
for the claim that the age of anticolonial self-determination has
ended. In this book, Jack Corbett shows how these movements are
animated by similar ideas and motivations that are rendered viable
by the simultaneous pursuit of regional integration and forms of
non-sovereignty. He argues that the à la carte pursuit of
political and economic independence through, above, and below the
state, and via non-sovereign alternatives to it, is a pragmatic
response to the contradictions inherent to coloniality.
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