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摘要
众所周知,小国由于面积小,自然资源往往不如大国丰富。这使得小国变得脆弱,并提出了一个问题,即是否可以实施具体政策来抵消其规模小的缺点并提高抵御能力。我们在本文中解决了这个问题,从而将重点放在国家、组织、各方或其他方面之间的连通性在理解一个国家的脆弱性和复原力方面的作用。在这里,“政策”被解释为道格拉斯·c·诺斯(Douglass C. North, 1990)意义上的“制度”,即“人为设计的、结构政治、经济和社会互动的约束”。我们的重点是加勒比地区,该地区的特点是有各种各样的小国,每个国家都有自己的一套规则和条例。在这一领域内,我们集中讨论以阿鲁巴、库拉帕拉索和圣马丁岛为一方的三个荷属加勒比岛屿与前殖民者荷兰之间的关系。作为第一步,我们采用利诺•布里格里奥(Lino Briguglio)提出的理论框架,衡量了17个加勒比海岛国的经济脆弱性和复原力,这些国家既有独立的,也有依赖的。结果显示,尽管存在个体差异,但这三个荷兰岛屿国家的表现相对较好。我们提供了第一次努力来解释这一结果的三个岛国的持续利益,以保持他们与前殖民者的关系可行。在这里,利益相关者所表现出的“系统性利益”似乎是一个最重要的变量。补充资料:在线版本包含补充资料,提供地址:10.1007/s11067-021-09533-w。
Vulnerability and Resilience in the Caribbean Island States; the Role of Connectivity.
It is well-known that small states, because of their size, tend to be less endowed with natural resources than big ones. This makes small states vulnerable and raises the question if specific policies can be implemented to offset the drawbacks of their small size and to increase resilience. We address this question in this paper, thereby focusing on the role of connectivity - between states, organisations, parties, or otherwise - in understanding a country's vulnerability and resilience. Here 'policies' are interpreted as 'institutions' in the sense of Douglass C. North (1990), i.e. as 'humanly devised constraints that structure political, economic and social interaction'. We focus on the Caribbean area, which is characterised by a wide variety of small states, each with its own set of rules and regulations. Within this area, we concentrate on the relationship between three Dutch Caribbean islands, i.e., Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten, on the one hand, and the Netherlands, the former colonizer, on the other hand. As a first step we have measured the economic vulnerability and resilience of 17 Caribbean island states, both dependent and independent, employing the theoretical framework proposed by Lino Briguglio. The outcomes show that the three Dutch island states are performing comparatively well, although there are individual differences. We provide a first effort to explain this outcome in terms of the continuing interest of the three island states to keep their ties to the former colonizer viable. Here the presence of 'systemic interest' as shown by the stakeholders appears to be a most important variable.
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11067-021-09533-w.
期刊介绍:
Networks and Spatial Economics (NETS) is devoted to the mathematical and numerical study of economic activities facilitated by human infrastructure, broadly defined to include technologies pertinent to information, telecommunications, the Internet, transportation, energy storage and transmission, and water resources. Because the spatial organization of infrastructure most generally takes the form of networks, the journal encourages submissions that employ a network perspective. However, non-network continuum models are also recognized as an important tradition that has provided great insight into spatial economic phenomena; consequently, the journal welcomes with equal enthusiasm submissions based on continuum models.
The journal welcomes the full spectrum of high quality work in networks and spatial economics including theoretical studies, case studies and algorithmic investigations, as well as manuscripts that combine these aspects. Although not devoted exclusively to theoretical studies, the journal is "theory-friendly". That is, well thought out theoretical analyses of important network and spatial economic problems will be considered without bias even if they do not include case studies or numerical examples.