Self-determinable Development of Small Islands
This book aims to clarify the present situation of the relations between small island countries and territories on the one hand and the great powers, mainland areas, and mega-islands on the other, and explores how small island countries and territories pr
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Self-determinable Development of Small Islands
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Masahide Ishihara • Eiichi Hoshino • Yoko Fujita Editors
Self-determinable Development of Small Islands
Editors Masahide Ishihara Faculty of Law and Letters University of the Ryukyus Okinawa Japan
Eiichi Hoshino Faculty of Law and Letters University of the Ryukyus Okinawa Japan
Yoko Fujita International Institute for Okinawan Studies University of the Ryukyus Okinawa Japan
ISBN 978-981-10-0130-7 ISBN 978-981-10-0132-1 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0132-1
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Preface
This volume is a product of the collective research project “Toward New Island Studies As an Academic Node Between Japan and East Asia/Oceania,” which the International Institute for Okinawan Studies at the University of the Ryukyus (IIOS) has worked on for 5 years since 2013 and which is funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. For this project, researchers and practitioners from various fields extracted common issues found in small island countries/territories, including Okinawa, analyzed present conditions with a multidisciplinary approach, and explored possible solutions to problems. In small island countries/territories, which are particularly susceptible to external influences, strategies to tackle externally-related issues are especially necessary. In existing approaches in the field of Island Studies, terms like islandness, remoteness, smallness, and vulnerability are often used to characterize islands. Because of these characterizations, existing research drew the conclusion that small island countries and territories have disadvanta
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