Rogue States or Legal Innovators? The ECCBI Bill, the Treaty of Basseterre, and the Crisis of Authority in the OECS”

Rogue States or Legal Innovators? The ECCBI Bill, the Treaty of Basseterre, and the Crisis of Authority in the OECS”

When five Eastern Caribbean countries recently moved to enact a new regional Citizenship-by-Investment (CBI) regulatory authority under a bill labeled the Eastern Caribbean CBI (ECCBI), the legal and constitutional alarms in some quarters began blaring. To many observers, this initiative appears to be not just a policy pivot, but a direct challenge to the foundational logic and institutional design of the Treaty of Basseterre—the instrument that…