(Work in process; accepted in a forthcoming collection on the work of Kathy Acker.) In 1939, just four years after the US withdrew from its nineteen-year-long military occupation of Haiti, Cole

Why the propensity for dependence in small islands?  This study argues in favor of the dependents’ superior levels of performance achieved under affiliation.  To demonstrate the evidence, the socio-economic and demographic profiles are developed of 25 non-sovereign and 30 sovereign small (less than one million population) islands using 25 variables and a two-sample means test.  Results demonstrate the dependents consistently out-perform their sovereign neighbors.  The former are economically more affluent with more dynamic economies diversified towards internationa