Surviving Small Size: Regional Integration in the Caribbean Ministates

Elbow, Gary S.

doi:10.1111/0033-0124.55040109

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“…Within the OECS, Anguilla has access to a common currency and a sub-regional judiciary but has thus far chosen not to ratify the Revised Treaty of Basseterre and the Economic Union Protocol which would enable reciprocal market access and freedom of movement, work and residence possibilities for its people across the OECS (J. Byron & Lewis, 2018;P. Lewis, 2002).…”

Section: Secession In the Caribbeanmentioning

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Secessionism in Nevis: Why Have Tensions Eased?

Corbett,

Byron

2023

Island Studies Journal

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Existing studies of secessionism focus predominantly on why these movements gain momentum and persist. A subset of work focuses on why secessionist tensions cease. We contribute to these latter studies by adapting the main theories developed to explain why secessionist agitation occurs, to account for abatement. We focus specifically on the island of Nevis in St Kitts and Nevis, a country that should be a “least likely” case for secession, given its small population, territory, and economy, yet has experienced secessionist agitation for much of the second half of the 20th century. Since the late 1990s, momentum for secession has subsided. We explain why by reference to rationalist, culturalist and institutionalist arguments. We use an in-depth case study method, drawing on a range of sources, that foregrounds equifinality and concatenation across more than a century of inter-island politics. The findings suggest that all three types of arguments have some explanatory value but each fall short of fully accounting for the ebb and flow of secessionist dynamics. The findings may be of particular interest to multi-island states and territories in the Caribbean. They also offer practical lessons about the importance of policies that promote sectoral integration, encourage sociological linkages, and provide scope for dynamic political settlements.

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Section: Secession In the Caribbeanmentioning

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Secessionism in Nevis: Why Have Tensions Eased?

Corbett,

Byron

2023

Island Studies Journal

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“…In fact, the goal of regional integration appears to have emerged as a tool for political independence. Both the colonizer (Britain) and the colonies (West Indies) at some point shared the belief that, given the small size of the "administrative units", political independence was only viable under the form of a federation, or to be more precise, the West Indian Federation established in 1958 (Lewis [2002]).…”

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Regional Integration: What is in it for CARICOM?

Moreira

Mendoza

2006

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Surviving Small Size: Regional Integration in the Caribbean Ministates

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Regional Integration: What is in it for CARICOM?

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