Contents;
List of Tables;
List of Figures;
Acknowledgements;
Notes on the Contributors;
List of Abbreviations;
1 The Rise (and Fall?) of Offshore Finance in the Global Economy: Editors' Introduction
Mark P. Hampton and Jason P. Abbott
2 Offshore and the Structural Enablement of Sovereignty
RonenPalan
3 Offshore: The State as Legal Fiction
Sol Picciotto
4 International Banking and Offshore Finance: London and the Major Centres
Mervyn K Lewis
5 Confidence Men: Offshore Finance and Citizenship
Susan M. Roberts
6 The Malta Financial Services Centre: A Study in Micro-State Dependency Management
David Fabri and Godfrey Baldacchino
7 A Legislature for Hire: The Capture of the State in Jersey's Offshore Finance Centre
John Christensen and Mark P. Hampton
8 Mahathir, Malaysia and the Labuan International Offshore Financial Centre:
Treasure Island, Pet Project or Ghost Town?
Jason P. Abbott
9 Financial Regulation and Supervision Offshore: Guernsey, a Case Study
Christopher M. Le Marchant
10 Offshore Finance in Southern Mrica
Paul Styger, Shyamsunder H. Jhurani and
Esi Schimming-Chase
Index