Pages 1-4: Table of Contents
Pages 5 - 184: Special Section on Referendums.
Guest Editors: Peter Clegg & Wendy Grenade
Pages 5-10: Guest editorial introduction: Referendums in small states and territories: A comparative analysis – Peter Clegg and Wendy Grenade
Pages 11-28: Narrating constitutional futures: Emotional and identity dynamics in the Scottish independence and EU referendums – Thom Oliver and Kristi Winters
Pages 29-46: Referendums and postcoloniality in Greenland: Self-determination and action space as collateral damage of bounding and un-bounding demoi – Rasmus Leander Nielsen and Ulrik Pram Gad
Pages 47-60: The referendum on the independence of Greenland – Zsuzsa Szakàly
Pages 61-70: The 2018-2021 sequence of referendums in New Caledonia: The uselessness of a ‘Yes/No’ referendum in divided societies – Carine David
Pages 71-86: Comparing decolonisation referendums in US and French Overseas Territories – İlker Gokhan Sen
Pages 87-96: Puerto Rico’s seven status referenda: The myth of a pro-statehood mandate – Emilio Pantojas-García
Pages 97-112: Constituting self-determination: Constitution-making referenda in the US territories – Anja Rørnes Tucker
Pages 113-126: Referendums in the Cayman Islands : turnout and voter eligibility in a small jurisdiction – Michael Bromby
Pages 127-142: Jersey referendums, governance, tradition and direct democracy – Peter Hargreaves
Pages 143-156: The Gibraltar 1967 and 2002 referendums: The (in)ability of referendums to resolve or ‘normalise’ a colonially contested territory – Jennifer Ballantine Perera
Pages 157-168: Gibraltar and the Brexit referendum – Peter Gold
Pages 169-184: Islands of principle: referendums, constitutions, and the arc of international norms in the Falkland Islands, Malta, and the Chagos Archipelago – Ankit Malhotra
Other Papers:
Pages 185-206: Sovereignty, non-sovereignty, and economic development in small island economies: An evolving story – Geoff Bertram
Pages 207-242: Country size and freedom of international economic exchange – Gor Mkrtchian
Pages 243-258: From burden-sharing to signalling : Nordic naval contributions and small-state agency in European maritime security – Giovanni Parente
Pages 259-280: Reimagining tourism development in Small Island Developing States: An integrated model for São Tomé and Príncipe – Andersone Silva and Francisco Silva
Pages 281-300: Defiance, diversification or deference? A neoclassical realist reading of Maldivian foreign policy erraticism and tergiversations in the context of South Asian geopolitics (1978-2025) – Benjamin Barton
Pages 301-322: Small states, national identity, and globalization: A comparative analysis of Qatar, Iceland, and Singapore – Jawaher Al-Shamari
Pages 323-340: A commentary between worlds: A collaborative autoethnography of practitioner-academic journeys in small island developing states and island territories – Angelique Pouponneau, Kahlil Hassanali, Dominique Benzaken, Frédérique Fardin and Kelly Hoareau
Pages 341-358: The diversification dilemma: Structural vulnerability and policy frontiers in small states: A case study of Seychelles – Gaurav Sen
Book Reviews:
Pages 359-360: Patricia Noxolo, Kevon Rhiney & Ronald Cummings (2025). Routledge handbook of Caribbean studies.
Review by Obika B. Gray
Pages 361-362: Lennox Honychurch (2024). Resistance, refuge, revival: The Indigenous Kalinagos of Dominica.
Review by Shelene Gomes
Pages 363-364: Fred Constant (2024). Overseas territories in world affairs: Linking up subnational, national and international politics.
Review by Godfrey Baldacchino
Pages 365-366: Bibek Chand (2023). Reframing the buffer state in contemporary international relations: Nepal’s relations with India and China.
Review by Charlie Zawadzki
Pages 367- 368: Julia Caroline Morris (2023). Asylum and extraction in the Republic of Nauru.
Review by Jack Corbett
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