The Bahamas in International Politics
Issues Arising for an Archipelago State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4548043 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vaughan A Lewis (University of the West Indies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 131-152 |
| Publication date | 1974-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1937 • E-ISSN: 2162-2736 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/174734 |
| OpenAlex | W2784094188 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
The Commonwealth of the Bahama Islands entered the international system as a sovereign state on July 10, 1973. It did so by sponsorship, which is to say that as far as relations between the Bahamas and the imperial country (United Kingdom) are concerned, independence has been granted, rather than taken or seized, with a minimal amount of difficulty. The identification of various issue-areas related to the entry of the Commonwealth into the international system is one way of indicating the various components that have gone into making up the "national interest" of that country, at least in the perspective of the state's policy makers. More concretely, the peculiar problems arising from its character as an archipelago state with a relatively open economy, make the questions to be resolved before and immediately after independence perhaps more complex than those faced by the other independent states of the Commonwealth Caribbean that have acceded to full sovereignty in the last decade
Archaeology · Archipelago · Commonwealth · Economics · Economy · Foreign policy · Geography · Independence (probability theory) · Independent state · International relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereign state · Sovereignty · State (computer science) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Economic Zones and Regional Development · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2014 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |