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Browsing Pacific Islands Policy by Issue Date

Browsing Pacific Islands Policy by Issue Date

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Is that the best you can do? : a tale of two Micronesian economies

Hezel, Francis X. (Honolulu: East-West Center, 2006)

Francis X. Hezel has long been concerned with economic development in the Micronesian Islands that are in association with the United States. In particular, his analysis focuses on the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) ...
China in Oceania : new forces in Pacific politics

Wesley-Smith, Terence (Honolulu: East-West Center, 2007)

In this policy paper, Terence Wesley-Smith explores strategic, political, and economic dimensions of Beijing's heightened interest in Oceania. He challenges the disingenuous threat discourse pervading the existing literature, ...
Guarding the Guardians: Accountability and Anticorruption in Fiji's Cleanup Campaign

Larmour, Peter (Honolulu: East-West Center, 2008)

In this paper Peter Larmour analyzes the vices and virtues of anti-corruption campaigns, and in particular how Fiji's military government under Commander Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama approached the issue of corruption during ...
Safety, security, and accessible justice : participatory approaches to law and justice reform in Papua New Guinea

MacDonald, Rosita (Honolulu: East-West Center, 2008)

Rosita MacDonald examines the challenges facing the law and justice reform partnership between Australia and its former colony Papua New Guinea (PNG). Serious safety and security issues confront PNG, with the incidence of ...
U.S. territorial policy : trends and current challenges

Stayman, Allen P. (Honolulu: East-West Center, 2009)

As a large continental power the United States has embraced a pragmatic and flexible approach to building stable relations with remote Island jurisdictions--each with its own unique history, culture, and economic potential. ...
Confronting environmental treaty implementation challenges in the Pacific Islands

Chasek, Pamela S. (Honolulu, HI: East-West Center, 2010)

Popular literature and the entertainment industry commonly portray the Pacific Islands as a homogeneous, tropical, and timeless Eden where life is leisurely and free from care and the problems of the twenty-first century. ...
Pacific island nations : how viable are their economies?

Hezel, Francis X. (Honolulu, HI : East-West Center, 2012)

In an earlier issue of Pacific Islands Policy, Francis X. Hezel, SJ, examined the economic performance of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and the Republic of the Marshall Islands before and after independence. ...