Authors
This author is known for establishing the minimum quantitative threshold for small size.
What is the Commonwealth Secretariat?
Sometimes confused with vulnerability, this term refers to states' capacity to manage independently.
What is viability?
This adjective, which is the focus of our course, is used to describe a variety of states but has no precise meaning.
What is small?
This term is used to refer to a group of states otherwise known as sub-national island jurisdictions or 'post-colonial' small state entities.
What are non-independent countries (NICs)?
This female politician is a staunch advocate for measures of development which are not just based on GDP.
Who is Mia Mottley?
The 'godfather' of vulnerability, this author is credited with the development of one of the first indices to measure vulnerability.
Who is Briguglio?
The name of the UN Resolution which guides the organization's work on Decolonization.
What is Resolution 1541?
This special group of states spans the Caribbean, AIMS and Pacific regions.
What are SIDS?
This percentage is used a threshold to determine whether states have sustainable or unsustainable levels of debt.
What is 60%?
This country's Prime Minister issued a statement from the ocean in protest to climate change during COP26.
What is Tuvalu?
This author refers to vulnerability as an “overriding existential condition".
Who is Bishop?
Name one great, and one middle power, which currently maintain colonies.
What are the United States/China/France/Britain (UK) and Colombia/Australia/New Zealand?
These two approaches are used to measure small size.
What are the quantitative and qualitative approaches?
This indicator is seen as the most accurate indicator of a states' development needs over multi-dimensional vulnerability.
What is GDP?
At the recent COP negotiations, there was agreement on this proposal by AOSIS.
What is loss and damages?
This author is known for the following quote:
'“[i]s it a small state, a small island developing state, a small sovereign state, a subnational island jurisdiction, a small vulnerable economy, a smaller economy, or what?'
Who is Sutton?
This island in the Caribbean was the last to receive independence in 1983.
What is St Kitts and Nevis?
Considered the antonym of vulnerability, this concept refers to states' ability to cope using policy-based measures.
What is resilience?
These two types of financial options are available to SIDS which have experiences disasters.
What are non-debt creating and debt creating?
The Prime Minister of this non-independent country was arrested in 2022 for allegations of drug trafficking.
What is the British Virgin Islands?
This author, also a guest lecturer, is a specialist working with the UN Decolonization Committee.
Who is Dr Carlyle Corbin?
This inherent right undergirds the UN's work on decolonization.
What is self-determination?
These special clauses are included in loan agreements to free debt payments in the event of a disaster.
What are hurricane clauses?
This term refers to the additional dimension proposed for the measurement of vulnerability, which takes into account states' resilience capacity.
What is recovery duration adjuster (RDA)?
These two Eastern Caribbean countries have introduced hurricane clauses as part of debt restructuring exercises.
What are Grenada and Barbados?