Barry Bartmann, professari, er deildarleiðari fyri Samfelagsfrøði á University of Prince Edward Island í Canada, har hann undirvísir í altjóða samskifti og europeiskum politikki; hann er eisini samskipari av ymiskum altjóða granskingarsamstørvum. Doktararitgerð hansara nevndist »Micro-states in the International System: The Challenge of Sovereignty«. Heystið 1999 starvast hann á Søgu- og samfelagsdeildini á Fróðskaparsetrinum, har hann undirvísir í skeiðum um politisk samveldi og smátjóðir og stjórnarskipanir.
Um fyrilesturin sigur Barry Bartmann: The island societies of the North Atlantic, from Newfoundland to the Faroes and the Western Isles, all share historical roots and comtemporary challenges for self-reliant economic development. Where they differ is in their constitutional status and jurisdictional capacity. These cold water islands represent every point on a continuum of autonomy, from virtualy no jurisdictional capacity at all in Cape Breton to full sovereignty in Iceland. This address will explore the relationship between constitutional status and economic development, particularly in the lessons gleaned in the North Atlantic Islands. Programme which has involved a range of small island societies on both sides of the Atlantic. The orthodoxies of conventional wisdom might suggest that the prospects for these islands are not optimistic given their very small size, their narrow resource bases, their remoteness and their peripherality. Yet, in the new global economy, there are often surprising niche opportunities from a comparative perspective and against the historic problems which are so familiar to all of these islanders.
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