European integration and postcolonial sovereignty games : the EU overseas countries and territories / / edited by Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Ulrik Pram Gad

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 341.242/2
• Soggetto topico: European federation; Postcolonialism - European Union countries
• Soggetto geografico: European Union countries Foreign relations
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: Adler-NissenRebecca <1979-> GadUlrik Pram
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; European Integration and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Series editor's preface; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction: postcolonial sovereignty games; 2 Postcolonial sovereignty: experimentation with statehood and self-determination; 3 Late sovereignty in post-integration Europe: continuity and change in a constitutive concept; 4 The micropolity sovereignty experience: decolonizing, but not disengaging; 5 European Union: facilitating the OCTs in Brussels ; 6 British conceptions of state, identity, and sovereignty: shifting global contexts7 Symbiotic sovereignties: the untold story of the British Overseas Territories; 8 Sovereignty games and global finance: the Cayman Islands; 9 Jurisdiction in dialect: sovereignty games in the British Virgin Islands; 10 French concepts of state: nation, patrie, and the Overseas; 11 Will the EU and the euro lead to more sovereignty? French Polynesia; 12 Negotiating postcolonial identities in the shadow of the EU: New Caledonia; 13 Between Europe and Africa: Mayotte ; 14 Postcolonial sovereignty games with Europe in the margins: The Netherlands, the Antilles, and Europe15 Greenland projecting sovereignty - Denmark protecting sovereignty away; 16 Conclusion: when European and Postcolonial Studies meet; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines how sovereignty works in the context of European integration and postcolonialism. Focusing on a group of micro-polities associated with the European Union, it offers a new understanding of international relations in the context of modern sovereignty.This book offers a systematic and comparative analysis of the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs), the EU and the four affected Member States: UK, France, the Netherlands and Denmark. Contributors explore how states and state-like entities play 'sovereignty games' to understand how a group of postcolonial e
• Titolo autorizzato: European integration and postcolonial sovereignty games
• ISBN: 1-283-92399-8; 0-203-07684-2; 1-135-12779-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462801403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New international relations.