Pages 369-372 Table of Contents
Pages 373-396 Sovereignty in small island states and territories: an economic perspective – Christian Montet
Pages 397-418 ‘Autonomy plus’ meets ‘Sovereignty plus’: Small jurisdictions and a future of fractured sovereignty – Godfrey Baldacchino
Pages 419-438 Carrying the fenua in law: Pacific relational sovereignty, descent-based nationality, and lessons from the Cook Islands and Niue for climate-threatened statehood – Cole Shipe
Pages 439-462 Between majoritarian confrontation and consociational democracy in a decolonizing territory: the case of New Caledonia-Kanaky (2024-2026) – Mathias Chauchat
Pages 463-478 Institutional transplantation and democratic performance in small island territories: the case of Aruba – Wouter Veenendaal, Luc Alofs, Thaïs Franken, Brechtje Huiskes, Rendell de Kort, Hannah Meijer, Luciano Milliard, Ghislaine Nicolaas, Emma Pullen & Helmut Vink
Pages 479-500 Small countries, big threats: A scoping review on the bi-directional relationship between obesity and climate change – Sarah Cuschieri, Kristina Marie Scerri, Nicholas Sammut, Clara Joy Grech Enriquez, Matthew Sheridan, Nicole Chetcuti, Raffaele Sigona, Michael Farrugia, Conor Shaw, Nikolas Camilleri, Desiree Sant, Stefano Moncada & Andrea Cuschieri
Pages 501-536 Research on human food and beverage production, supply and consumption in small islands: a scoping review in Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao (Dutch Caribbean) – Amber S. van Veghel, Veronica Perez, Salys Sultan & Renske Pin + SUPP + EXCEL
Pages 537-562 Grey hydras in 'Paradise': policy responses, property valuation, and climate displacement in Pacific Island States – Matthew S. Myers
Pages 563-580 Dependency and development: Exploring aid dynamics in St Helena as a British Overseas Territory – Scott Richard Angell
Pages 581-594 The prize of small-state status-seeking: Albania–Russian relations following Albania’s accession to NATO in 2009 – Noela Mahmutaj & Iver B. Neumann
Pages 595-612 Iceland in UN climate negotiations: A small state hiding, seeking shelter, hedging or going alone? – Carola Klöck and Baldur Thorhallsson
Pages 613-630 Cultural diplomacy as small-state statecraft: Adaptation and constitutionalisation of soft power in Azerbaijan – Jamal Aliyev
Pages 631-656 From principality to prototype: Monaco as a micro-state capital mobilisation model for blue economy finance – Oliver Scharping
Pages 657-674 Unlocking the Pacific’s energy future: An approach to lessons learned in Climate Finance – Peter Weimann & Asher Richardson
Pages 675-692 White-collar crime: a small state perspective – Erskine R. Burke
Pages 693-710 Cultural institutions and development in a small island state: fa’a Samoa, collective well-being and resilience – Fanwell Kenala Bokosi
Pages 711-724 Book Reviews
Pages 711-712 Sport and history in small states and non-sovereign territories, International Journal of the History of Sport (2025) by Matthew McDowell. Review by Wesley van Drongelen
Pages 713-714 The Elgar companion to the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean (2025) by Francisco R. Rodríguez. Review by Robert Deal III
Pages 715-716 Resistance, refuge, revival: The Indigenous Kalinagos of Dominica (2024) by Lennox Honychurch. Review by Emily Wilkinson & Courtney Lindsay
Pages 717-718 La France d’outre-mer: Terres éparses, sociétés vivantes [France overseas: Scattered lands, vibrant societies] (2026) by Jean-Christophe Gay. Review by Godfrey Baldacchino
Pages 719-720 Nepal and major powers in the Himalayas: Small state in international affairs (2026) by Saroj K. Aryal & Manish J. Pulami (2026). Review by Bibek Chand
Pages 721-722 Reordering Caribbean futures in the fires of global change (2025) by Patricia Northover, Richard L. Bernard, Hamid A. Ghany & Natalie Deitrich Jones (Eds.). Review by Brian Meeks
Pages 723-724 Agency, security and governance of small states: A global perspective (2024) by Thomas Kolnberger & Harlan Koff (Eds). Review by Marlon Anatol
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