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The Falkland Islands: Self-Determination, Proximity and the Limits of Historical Entitlement

A Crown Works monograph on sovereignty, strategic geography and the inadvisability of deciding constitutional questions with a ruler.

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Crown Works Committee · 2026

Principal finding

Britain should continue to administer and defend the Falkland Islands because that is what the Islanders presently and overwhelmingly choose. If they freely choose another constitutional future, the same principle requires Britain to respect it.

Secondary finding: a kilometre remains a unit of length, not a deed of title. The Department of Genetics has again asked the College to stop writing to them.