Strategies of development for small island territories of the North Atlantic : common sense versus good sense [Introduction]

Abstract

In 1992, the European Community was experiencing the full measure of the effects of the barrier-free single European internal market and bracing itself for the implications of the Maastricht agreement, envisaged to see the EC move closer to a European Union. At the same time, Canada, the United States, and Mexico were seeing through the legislative processes that would bring N AFT A into force come January 1993. Nudged betwixt these two mega -developments, islanders from the broad North Atlantic region met to discuss the political, economic, and cultural sense of their contemporary identity.