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Title: | Far better to serve in heaven than reign in hell : Malta's logic of relating to the European Union |
Other Titles: | Competing strategies of socio-economic development for small islands |
Authors: | Baldacchino, Godfrey |
Keywords: | States, Small -- Economic conditions Malta -- Economic aspects -- 20th century European Union -- Malta -- Membership Economic development -- Malta European Union countries -- Foreign economic relations -- Malta Malta -- Foreign economic relations |
Issue Date: | 1998 |
Publisher: | Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island |
Citation: | Baldacchino, G. (1998). Far better to serve in heaven than reign in hell: Malta's logic of relating to the European Union. In G. Baldacchino, & R. Greenwood (Eds.), Competing strategies of socio-economic development for small islands (pp. 213-237), [An Island Living Series; V. 2]. Charlottetown: Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island. |
Abstract: | Milton's Satan serves conveniently as a symbol of defiant nationalism. He is the prototype rebel against global hegemonic forces; he is bent on sovereignty, freedom, and delinking strategies, at any cost. Entrusted with economic planning in Chaos, he would no doubt have sought self-sustained growth and viability. But for all his superhuman flamboyance, Milton's cosmic villain is seeped in compassionate irony, a mock-heroism that results from me blindness of being ostracized from God Almighty. Independence is proudly claimed but nevertheless sounds hollow. It is a reckless initiative, an expression not of gain, but of loss of stature and in the quality of life. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/39321 |
ISBN: | 0919013236 |
Appears in Collections: | Competing strategies of socio-economic development for small islands Scholarly Works - FacArtSoc |
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