What would it take to get more countries that integrate their former colonies into their political system, rather than granting them independence, like Fr. Guiana today?
What would it take to get more countries that integrate their former colonies into their political system, rather than granting them independence, like Fr. Guiana today?
There might be the possibility of more freak Fr. Guiana cases, though, that is, colonies which, somehow, end up being an integrated, equal part of the political system of the 'mother country'.The question is IMO worded wrong. Its not like countries havent tried, but even in smaller territories resistance movements formed. Portugal for example - okay, so it wanted to kleep all colonies, which was not so bright, but even in tiny Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau), a resistance movement controlle dhalf the territory eventually.
The colonies the colonial powers eventually kept were the not so important and not so populated ones. Granted, even those were often discarded afterwards, like French Smalia/French Territory of the Afar and Issa/Djibouti. Those kinda territoriescould have been kept most likely, but to do so would have needed a different aprpoach to democracy in Europe, as it would only be possible by ignoring the wishes of teh lcoal population, and that would require a different attitude in Europe, I think.
Possibly Malta, too.I'll say British Newfoundland and Spanish Sahara as possible candidates.
MAlta is the only really possible one for Britain...If that happened we may get a few other small places directly integrated too.
But integration really isn't the British way. They even let Mann and the Channel Isles govern themselves and they are on Britain's doorstep.
But the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands have a history of independent govenment, though...
So do British colonies.
Not on quite the same timescale, though...
The Channel Islands and Isle of Man have been de jure independent eversince they belonged to the English (later British) Monarch in some way or form...
Which begs the question: Why didn't the Isle of Man become an English county?![]()
Should Iceland count as a "Guyana", too, given its proximity to Denmark?