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The Bahamas in International Politics: Issues Arising for an Archipelago State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Vaughan A. Lewis
Vaughan A. Lewis*
Affiliation:
Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados
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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.

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Research Article
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , May 1974 , pp. 131 - 152
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1974

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