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When East Timor achieved sovereignty on 20 May 2002, the ceremony marked not only the end of an agonizing process of self-determination for the islanders of this small territory, but also arguably the final act of European decolonization itself. Yet was East Timor truly the last scraping of the bottom of the colonial barrel? There are various types of dependencies scattered across the oceans of the world, many of them islands, still subject to European metropoles. The quest for sovereignty, as the only acceptable path to self-determination, does not seem to be the burning issue in these few remaining territories. Many are content to maintain the security of metropolitan relationships into the distant future. ; peer-reviewed

Reviews security threats facing small nations, security dilemmas, such as drug running, money laundering, and environmental hazards, security strategies, and reliance on international norms and the principle of territorial integrity and independence.

This volume for the first time provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical examination of a new and very significant development in the international politics of fragmentation.