Abstract
Problems of development go wider than those of trade and finance. They also involve issues of security. It effects the Commonwealth in two ways. Firstly, the membership includes many small states. Since the independence of Cyprus in 1961 the number of member countries with a population of less than two million has grown. By the 1980s this included half the membership. Some were very small indeed, equivalent to less than a suburb in a big city.
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K. Panayides, ‘The constitutional aspects of the Cyprus Problem’, The Parliamentarian, 1984, 65(4): 272; Kuala Lumpur Communiqué, 1989, pp. 4–5.
Annual Register, 1983, pp. 62–3, 91–3; W. Cash, ‘Grenada: constitutional upset that a revolution can bring’, Commonwealth, 1984, 26(5): 168–70
G. Sandford and R. Vigilante, Grenada: the Untold Story (London: Madison Books, 1984).
J. Henderson (Rapporteur) ‘Study Group on Security of Small States’, The Parliamentarian, 1984, 65 (4): 254.
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McIntyre, W.D. (1991). Security and the Small States. In: The Significance of the Commonwealth, 1965–90. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377103_9
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