41 micro countries : how economic competitive disadvantages, climate change disasters, and identity divides threaten the world's smallest countries

Introduction: Challenges facing micro-countries -- Introducing the 41 micro-countries -- From developing to dismembering global empires (late 1400s-late 1900s) -- Sovereignty, skepticism, and survival -- Economic disadvantages -- Environment disasters -- Ethnic, class, and other 'identity' divides -- Representative goverance and interdepenence -- Retropect and prospects -- Dependence, independence, and intrdependence -- Europe : the first modern micro-countries -- Africa : along the coast -- Asia : on South Asia's fringe -- The Americas : the extended Caribbean -- Oceania : the South-West Pacific -- Looking ahead.