Island Studies Journal – Vol. 3, No. 1
May 2008

• Front Cover
• Contents

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Scholarly Articles

• The Challenge of Nissology: A Global Outlook on the World Archipelago – Part I: Scene Setting the World Archipelago
  Christian Depraetere
• The Challenge of Nissology: A Global Outlook on the World Archipelago – Part II: The Global and Scientific Vocation of Nissology
  Christian Depraetere
• Studying Islands: On Whose Terms? Some Epistemological and Methodological Challenges to the Pursuit of Island Studies
  Godfrey Baldacchino
• Reading the News: Pitcairn Island at the Beginning of the 21st Century
  Lisa Fletcher
• Start-Up Success in a Small Island State: A Study among Entrepreneurs in Malta
  Leonie Baldacchino, Vincent Cassar & Albert Caruana

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Review Essays

• Tourism in Cold Water Islands: A Matter of Contract? Experiences from Destination Management in the Polar North
  Per Åke Nilsson
• Between De Jure and De Facto Statehood: Revisiting the Status of Taiwan
  Barry Bartmann

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Book Reviews

• The Routledge Companion to Decolonization by Dietmar Rothermund (editor); (reviewer: Peter Larmour);
• A World of Islands: An Island Studies Reader by Godfrey Baldacchino (editor); (reviewer: Russell King);
• Cloud of Bone by Bernice Morgan; (reviewer: Judith P. Robertson); 
• Island Journeys: Exploring the Legacy of France by Patti M. Marxsen; (reviewer: Stephen A. Royle);
• The Dance of the Islands: Insularity, Networks, The Athenian Empire and the Aegean World by Christy Constantakopoulou; reviewer: Chet Van Duzer);
• Pacific Voices: Equity and Sustainability in Pacific Islands Fisheries by Irene Novaczek, Jean Mitchell & Joeli Veitayaki (editors); (reviewer: Elaine Ward);
• Bridging Islands: The Impact of Fixed Links by Godfrey Baldacchino (editor) (reviewer: Philip Vannini);
• Commonwealth Small States: Issues and Prospects by Eliawony J. Kisanga & Sarah Jane Danchie (editors); (reviewer: Geoff Bertram);
• Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 33, No. 5, by Kevin J. Edwards (guest editor); (reviewer: Russell Fielding).

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