Extended Statehood in the Caribbean Lammert de Jong & Dirk Kruijt (eds). Extended Statehood in the Caribbean Paradoxes of quasi colonialism, local autonomy and extended statehood in the USA, French, Dutch and British Caribbean © authors, 2005 Coverdesign: Pier de Jong, Amsterdam Cover illustration: Painting, Untitled, 1988, Pier de Jong, Amsterdam All rights reserved. Save exceptions stated by the law, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system of any nature, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, included a complete or partial transcription, without the prior written permission of the publishers, application for which should be addressed to the publishers: Rozenberg Publishers, Bloemgracht 82hs, 1015 TM Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel.: + 31 (0) 20 625 54 29 Fax: + 31 (0) 20 620 33 95 E-mail:
[email protected] www.rozenbergps.com ISBN 90 5170 686 3 NUR 680 Contents 1 Extended Statehood in the Caribbean: Definition and Focus 3 Lammert de Jong 2 Fifty Years of Commonwealth. The Contradictions of Free Associated 21 Statehood in Puerto Rico Jorge Duany & Emilio Pantojas-Garcia 3 The French Departements dóutre mer. Guadeloupe and Martinique 5 9 Justin Daniel 4 The Kingdom of the Netherlands. A Not So Perfect Union with the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba Lammert de Jong 5 The UK Caribbean Overseas Territories. Extended Statehood and the 125 Process of Policy Convergence Peter Clegg 6 Introducing an Anti-National Pragmatist on Saint Martin & Sint Maarten 157 Francio Guadeloupe 7 Comparing Notes on Extended Statehood in the Caribbean 177 Lammert de Jong About the authors 205 Chapter 1 Extended Statehood in the Caribbean: Definition and Focus 1 Lammert de Jong Introduction Quite a number of islands in the Caribbean region have not become independent states.