41 Micro Countries: how economic competitive disadvantages, climate change disasters, and identity divides threaten the world's smallest countries

Introduction: Challenges facing micro-countries -- Introducing the 41 micro-countries -- From developing to dismembering global empires (late 1400s-late 1900s) -- Sovereignty, skepticism, and survival -- Economic disadvantages -- Environment disasters -- Ethnic, class, and other 'identity'...

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1. Verfasser: Humes, Samuel 1930- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ocala, Florida Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc [2020]
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: Challenges facing micro-countries -- Introducing the 41 micro-countries -- From developing to dismembering global empires (late 1400s-late 1900s) -- Sovereignty, skepticism, and survival -- Economic disadvantages -- Environment disasters -- Ethnic, class, and other 'identity' divides -- Representative goverance and interdepenence -- Retropect and prospects -- Dependence, independence, and intrdependence -- Europe : the first modern micro-countries -- Africa : along the coast -- Asia : on South Asia's fringe -- The Americas : the extended Caribbean -- Oceania : the South-West Pacific -- Looking ahead
"The United Nations recognizes the 41 independent countries with less than one million inhabitants (40 were admitted as members; diplomatic missions were accepted with the Vatican). Many scholars and statesmen were initially skeptical of the survival of the small countries established outside mainland Europe in the wave of colonization following World War II. Nevertheless, they have survived the initial decades. But will these countries survive the economic, environmental, and ethnic challenges that will confront them in the next few decades?
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xxxi, 396 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781620236727

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