Peter Clegg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1361233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Clegg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Clegg |
| SIGNATURE | CLEGG P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of England |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6511-5851 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Vindication? The Misick conviction and UK governance in the TCI
With relatively little media fanfare, former premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), Michael Misick, and two associates were given prison sentences on 29 May 2026 for their role in serious c...
Bermuda’s independence referendum – 30 years on
The Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories
Social Psychological Perspectives on Islandness
Although there are many widely perceived attractions to living on a small island, island life is not without its challenges. The physical aspects of these are well rehearsed. The psychological ones, less so. Drawing on social psychological theories, we analyse the experience of living on small islands, with a focus on two small British islands. Data were collected through ethnographic fieldwork, involving observations and interviews with small is…
Flawed democracy and development
Parliamentary representation of overseas territories in the metropolis
The consequences of ‘Brexit’ are many, and one that is little discussed is the reigniting of the debate as to whether Britain’s Overseas Territories (BOTs) should have direct representation within the United Kingdom Houses of Parliament; presently they do not. Proponents suggest that this would strengthen the territories’ voice in, and links with, Britain. The article considers this debate by drawing on some of the extant literature on what const…
Falkland Islands – 40 years on
Political and constitutional issues for the contemporary Falkland Islands
Understandably much of the academic literature on the Falkland Islands relates to its relationship with Argentina and the allied territorial dispute, but that can ignore broader and equally important aspects of the Falklands’ political and constitutional lives, which are the feature of this article. The overarching aim is to consider the multi-layered approach to political and constitutional matters, and how they have evolved since the Falklands …
Covid-19 and the British Overseas Territories
The British Overseas Territories are part of the 'Commonwealth family', and have characteristics such as isolation, economic vulnerability, and small populations, which have influenced how the territories have tackled COVID-19. Their direct relationship with Britain has been another important consideration. The article focuses on four of the Overseas Territories – the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, British Virgin Islands, and Pitcairn – and conside…
Anonymity versus advocacy
The purpose of much island research is to advocate for island communities, to encourage island scholarship by islanders themselves, and where that is not possible, to promote the voices of islanders ‘on their own terms’. However, the very nature of small islands as socially and physically bounded communities, means that, whilst one voice cannot speak for the entire community, often the voice speaking is easily recognisable. This can result in the…
Euro-Caribbean Societies in the 21st Century
Caribbean Military Encounters
As an international relations scholar the military interventions in the Caribbean during the course of the twentieth century are well known to me. The role of the United States is of course key; de
Brexit
This article is based on a round table discussion that was held at the Centre for Small States, Queen Mary University, London, on 18 September 2017. The article uses the presentations from the event, together with answers to questions that were posed, to construct an analysis of how Brexit has affected, and will probably continue to affect, small states and subnational island jurisdictions in Europe and beyond. There is still no real clarity in r…
Russia and Caricom
Hemispheric reconfigurations in Northern Amazonia
Regional and hemispheric reconfigurations in Latin America and the Caribbean are increasingly mediated by Brazilian power, and the engagement of Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana with this emerging context is intriguing. They are tentatively moving away from a Caribbean region with which they are culturally contiguous, towards a South American continent in which they are geographically located. This is partly a reflection of the gradual opening …
The Influence of Small States on Superpowers
Former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley was a powerful and influential figure both at home and abroad. He was determined to improve the position of the Jamaican people by reconfiguring both political and economic orthodoxies, which he and many others felt were still too closely aligned to British colonialism and American imperialism. This period of history within the Caribbean is a particularly interesting one because of the charismatic ind…
Brexit and the Commonwealth
The global financial crisis and its aftermath
The small non-sovereign island jurisdictions (SNIJs) of the Caribbean have a privileged position in the global political economy, with significant political and economic autonomy on the one hand, and useful protections and support structures provided by their metropolitan powers on the other. However, the global financial and economic crisis of 2007–2008 highlighted starkly some of the fragilities of this privileged status; in particular their ec…
Post-Colonial Trajectories in the Caribbean
This book compares and contrasts the contemporary development experience of neighbouring, geographically similar countries with an analogous history of exploitation but by three different European colonisers. Studying the so-called ‘Three Guianas’ (Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) offers a unique opportunity to look for similarities and differences in their contemporary patterns of development, particularly as they grapple with new and complex…
Human rights in the overseas territories
Since the late 1990s emphasis has been placed by the UK government on enhancing human rights in its Overseas Territories. Some early changes were enforced, but more recently persuasion and capacity building have been prioritised. However, due to the complexity of the bilateral relationships and the cultural diversity that exists, fostering and embedding reform is difficult. These challenges are seen most clearly in two examples: the rights of the…
Brexit and the Overseas Territories
There are 14 United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs), of which nine are associated with the European Union (EU) via the Overseas Association Decision adopted by the EU in 2013. Gibraltar, meanwhile, is part of the EU under Article 355(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU. Only the citizens of Gibraltar were able to vote in the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU, but the consequences for all are potentially very significant. …
Pitcairn—In the Last Chance Saloon
Colonies in Conflict
Colonies in Conflict: The History of the British Overseas Territories." The Round Table, 105(3), pp. 339–340
The Political Economy of Caribbean Development, written by Matthew Louis Bishop
Grenada
Grenada: Revolution and Invasion is a wide-ranging collection of essays by academics in the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and the United States, each with a unique perspective on the revolution and its effects
The UK Overseas Territories
This article analyses the relationship between the UK and its Overseas Territories since the publication of the 1999 White Paper Partnership for Progress and Prosperity. The article considers the efforts by the UK government to improve links with the territories via a new partnership based on mutual obligations and responsibilities. It focuses on the two most important aspects of the White Paper – governance and economic growth and sustainability…
Independence movements in the Caribbean
Several countries in the Caribbean are not yet independent. However, none wish to become so, despite politicians in several of them initiating moves towards that end. This contribution evaluates these attempts and explains why they failed. The key factor is that most citizens feel that the present governance arrangements are preferable to independence. Nevertheless, many on the islands challenge the status quo, and thus there has been debate over…
European Integration and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games
Brexit
This article is based on a round table discussion that was held at the Centre for Small States, Queen Mary University, London, on 18 September 2017. The article uses the presentations from the event, together with answers to questions that were posed, to construct an analysis of how Brexit has affected, and will probably continue to affect, small states and subnational island jurisdictions in Europe and beyond. There is still no real clarity in r…
Banana splits and policy challenges
The article considers the changes that have taken place within the political economy of international trade over the last decade. The work begins by assessing briefly the dynamics of the last successful trade negotiations undertaken by the ACP Caribbean – the agreement on a single European banana market in 1993. Since then, however, the international political and economic climate has dramatically changed. The article evaluates recent development…
Covid-19 and the British Overseas Territories
The British Overseas Territories are part of the 'Commonwealth family', and have characteristics such as isolation, economic vulnerability, and small populations, which have influenced how the territories have tackled COVID-19. Their direct relationship with Britain has been another important consideration. The article focuses on four of the Overseas Territories – the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, British Virgin Islands, and Pitcairn – and conside…
Anonymity versus advocacy
The purpose of much island research is to advocate for island communities, to encourage island scholarship by islanders themselves, and where that is not possible, to promote the voices of islanders ‘on their own terms’. However, the very nature of small islands as socially and physically bounded communities, means that, whilst one voice cannot speak for the entire community, often the voice speaking is easily recognisable. This can result in the…
Brexit and the Overseas Territories
There are 14 United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs), of which nine are associated with the European Union (EU) via the Overseas Association Decision adopted by the EU in 2013. Gibraltar, meanwhile, is part of the EU under Article 355(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU. Only the citizens of Gibraltar were able to vote in the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU, but the consequences for all are potentially very significant. …
Guyana, its Foreign Policy, and the Path to Development
Guyana is potentially on the threshold of great change. The growing importance of gold-mining and logging, and the rising hope that sizeable quantities of oil will soon be found should act as a catalyst for a dramatic improvement in Guyana’s level of development. However, these industries require responsible management and there are concerns that severe weaknesses in Guyana’s governance structures will place major constraints on its ability to de…
The Commonwealth Caribbean and the Challenges of Institutional Exclusion
The paper evaluates the changes that have taken place in the political economy of global trade, particularly the growing influence of international organizations and their rules and norms, and the institutional exclusion of the Commonwealth Caribbean that has resulted. The work begins by assessing briefly the dynamics of one of the last successful trade negotiations undertaken by the Caribbean (the agreement on a single European banana market in …
The global financial crisis and its aftermath
The small non-sovereign island jurisdictions (SNIJs) of the Caribbean have a privileged position in the global political economy, with significant political and economic autonomy on the one hand, and useful protections and support structures provided by their metropolitan powers on the other. However, the global financial and economic crisis of 2007–2008 highlighted starkly some of the fragilities of this privileged status; in particular their ec…
Colonies in Conflict
Colonies in Conflict: The History of the British Overseas Territories." The Round Table, 105(3), pp. 339–340
Political and constitutional issues for the contemporary Falkland Islands
Understandably much of the academic literature on the Falkland Islands relates to its relationship with Argentina and the allied territorial dispute, but that can ignore broader and equally important aspects of the Falklands’ political and constitutional lives, which are the feature of this article. The overarching aim is to consider the multi-layered approach to political and constitutional matters, and how they have evolved since the Falklands …
Human rights in the overseas territories
Since the late 1990s emphasis has been placed by the UK government on enhancing human rights in its Overseas Territories. Some early changes were enforced, but more recently persuasion and capacity building have been prioritised. However, due to the complexity of the bilateral relationships and the cultural diversity that exists, fostering and embedding reform is difficult. These challenges are seen most clearly in two examples: the rights of the…
Pitcairn—In the Last Chance Saloon
Re-mapping the Americas
The Commonwealth Caribbean and Europe
The institutional relationship between the Commonwealth Caribbean and the European Union (EU) dates back to the mid-1970s, when the Lomé Convention was signed. The agreement was seen as a high water mark in First–Third World relations. However, since then the bond has come under concerted pressure. The consequence is that today the particularism that underpinned relations for so long has almost vanished and the EU is beginning to treat the Caribb…
The Caribbean Reparations Claim
In July 2013 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders agreed to establish a Reparations Commission under the chairmanship of Hilary Beckles, pro vice-chancellor and principal of the Cave Hill Campus o
Pathways from Preferential Trade
Caribbean Political Activism
Rupert Lewis (Ed.) Kingston, Jamaica, Ian Randle Publishers, 2012, pp. xxxv + 302, ISBN 9789766376147 (paperback) Richard Hart was born in Jamaica in 1917, and became a symbol of the nationalist
Britain and the Commonwealth Caribbean
The relationship between Britain and the countries of the Commonwealth Caribbean has been defined largely by declining interest and disengagement since the process of decolonization began in 1962. Occasionally Britain was obliged to re-engage with the region when its interests were challenged, but in general the process of withdrawal has been maintained. Nevertheless, it was hoped that a new chapter in British – Caribbean relations would come wit…
Modes of referral of overseas immigrant and native-born first admissions to psychiatric hospital
In
Caribbean-European relations and 9/11
Banana splits and policy challenges
The article considers the changes that have taken place within the political economy of international trade over the last decade. The work begins by assessing briefly the dynamics of the last successful trade negotiations undertaken by the ACP Caribbean – the agreement on a single European banana market in 1993. Since then, however, the international political and economic climate has dramatically changed. The article evaluates recent development…
Britain and the Commonwealth Caribbean
The relationship between Britain and the countries of the Commonwealth Caribbean has been defined largely by declining interest and disengagement since the process of decolonization began in 1962. Occasionally Britain was obliged to re-engage with the region when its interests were challenged, but in general the process of withdrawal has been maintained. Nevertheless, it was hoped that a new chapter in British – Caribbean relations would come wit…
The Commonwealth Caribbean and the Challenges of Institutional Exclusion
The paper evaluates the changes that have taken place in the political economy of global trade, particularly the growing influence of international organizations and their rules and norms, and the institutional exclusion of the Commonwealth Caribbean that has resulted. The work begins by assessing briefly the dynamics of one of the last successful trade negotiations undertaken by the Caribbean (the agreement on a single European banana market in …
The Aids Pandemic in Latin America - by Smallman, Shawn
The UK Overseas Territories
This article analyses the relationship between the UK and its Overseas Territories since the publication of the 1999 White Paper Partnership for Progress and Prosperity. The article considers the efforts by the UK government to improve links with the territories via a new partnership based on mutual obligations and responsibilities. It focuses on the two most important aspects of the White Paper – governance and economic growth and sustainability…
Independence movements in the Caribbean
Several countries in the Caribbean are not yet independent. However, none wish to become so, despite politicians in several of them initiating moves towards that end. This contribution evaluates these attempts and explains why they failed. The key factor is that most citizens feel that the present governance arrangements are preferable to independence. Nevertheless, many on the islands challenge the status quo, and thus there has been debate over…
The UK Government's White Paper on the Overseas Territories—A Modest Advance
On 28 June 2012 the long-awaited White Paper on the Overseas Territories subtitled Security, Success and Sustainability was published by the UK government. The White Paper sets out the nature of th
The United Kingdom Overseas Territories
European Integration and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games
The Diplomacies of Small States
The Contemporary Caribbean: Issues and ChallengesPriti Singh and M. Raymond Izarali (Eds)Patparganj, Shipra Publications, 2013, pp. xxiv + 439, ISBN 978817541659-8 (hardback)‘Small states’ entered
Caribbean Political Activism
Rupert Lewis (Ed.) Kingston, Jamaica, Ian Randle Publishers, 2012, pp. xxxv + 302, ISBN 9789766376147 (paperback) Richard Hart was born in Jamaica in 1917, and became a symbol of the nationalist
The Caribbean Reparations Claim
In July 2013 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders agreed to establish a Reparations Commission under the chairmanship of Hilary Beckles, pro vice-chancellor and principal of the Cave Hill Campus o
Trials and Tribulations in the Eastern Caribbean
The Political Economy of Caribbean Development
The Caribbean is often considered as a single political, economic and social space, or the countries of the Commonwealth Caribbean are taken as the main point of reference when the wider region is
Guyana, its Foreign Policy, and the Path to Development
Guyana is potentially on the threshold of great change. The growing importance of gold-mining and logging, and the rising hope that sizeable quantities of oil will soon be found should act as a catalyst for a dramatic improvement in Guyana’s level of development. However, these industries require responsible management and there are concerns that severe weaknesses in Guyana’s governance structures will place major constraints on its ability to de…
Pathways from Preferential Trade
The Political Economy of Caribbean Development, written by Matthew Louis Bishop
Grenada
Grenada: Revolution and Invasion is a wide-ranging collection of essays by academics in the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and the United States, each with a unique perspective on the revolution and its effects
Ramphal on Record/The Record on Ramphal
Re-mapping the Americas
The Commonwealth Caribbean and Europe
The institutional relationship between the Commonwealth Caribbean and the European Union (EU) dates back to the mid-1970s, when the Lomé Convention was signed. The agreement was seen as a high water mark in First–Third World relations. However, since then the bond has come under concerted pressure. The consequence is that today the particularism that underpinned relations for so long has almost vanished and the EU is beginning to treat the Caribb…
Ebola, Chikungunya, and the Caribbean
In recent months the Caribbean has faced an epidemic of the Chikungunya virus, which the region has found difficult to control. In May 2014 the Caribbean Health Agency (CARPHA) declared the virus had reached epidemic levels, and since then the number of cases has increased further. Also, the threat of the Ebola virus is growing. No cases have yet been reported in the region, but there are great concerns over what might happen if it does arrive, p…
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