Since 2009 there has been a fundamental shift in the way that the Pacific Island states engage with regional and world politics. The region has experienced, what Kiribati President Anote Tong has aptly called, a ‘paradigm shift’ in ideas about how Pacific diplomacy should be organised, and on what principles it should operate. Many leaders have called for a heightened Pacific voice in global affairs and a new commitment to establishing Pacific Island control of this diplomatic process. This change in thinking has been expressed in the establishment of new channels and arenas for Pacific diplomacy at the regional and global levels and new ways of connecting the two levels through active use of intermediate diplomatic associations.

The New Pacific Diplomacy brings together a range of analyses and perspectives on these dramatic new developments in Pacific diplomacy at sub-regional, regional and global levels, and in the key sectors of global negotiation for Pacific states – fisheries, climate change, decolonisation, and trade.

 

 

http://press.anu.edu.au/titles/pacific-series/the-new-pacific-diplomacy/

The New Pacific Diplomacy

Edited by Greg Fry and Sandra Tarte

ISBN 9781925022810 (Print version) $33.00 (GST inclusive)
ISBN 9781925022827 (Online)
Published December 2015

Citation url: http://press.anu.edu.au?p=328371

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• Preliminary Pages
• Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• List of Contributors

 

Overview

1. The ‘New Pacific Diplomacy’: An introduction – Greg Fry and Sandra Tarte
2. ‘Charting its Own Course’: A paradigm shift in Pacific diplomacy – H.E. President Anote Tong

 

The Regional Diplomatic System

1. Towards a New Regional Diplomacy Architecture – Kaliopate Tavola
2. The Future of the Pacific Islands Forum and the Framework for Pacific Regionalism – Dame Meg Taylor
3. The New Framework for Pacific Regionalism: Old kava in a new tanoa? – Claire Slatter
4. Civil Society and the Political Legitimacy of Regional Institutions: An NGO perspective – Maureen Penjueli
5. A New Pacific Regional Voice? The Pacific Islands Development Forum – Tarte
6. The New Pacific Diplomacy at the United Nations: The rise of the PSIDS – Fulori Manoa

 

Fiji’s New Diplomacy

1. Fiji’s Emerging Brand of Pacific Diplomacy: A Fiji government perspective – Litia Mawi
2. Fiji’s Foreign Policy and the New Pacific Diplomacy – Makereta Komai

 

Geopolitical Context

1. The Strategic Context of the New Pacific Diplomacy – Michael O’Keefe
2. New Zealand and Australia in Pacific Regionalism – Nicola Baker

 

Sub-Regionalism

1. The Renaissance of the Melanesian Spearhead Group – Tess Newton Cain
2. Negotiating the Melanesia Free Trade Area – Sovaia Marawa
3. Micronesian Sub-Regional Diplomacy – Suzanne Lowe Gallen

 

Climate Diplomacy

1. Marshalling a Pacific Response to Climate Change – Nicollette Goulding
2. Establishing a Pacific Voice in the Climate Change Negotiations – George Carter

 

Tuna Diplomacy

1. How Tuna is Shaping Regional Diplomacy – Transform Aqorau
2. The New Pacific Diplomacy and the South Pacific Tuna Treaty – Jope Tarai

 

Negotiating Trade and Decolonisation

1. Negotiating Power in Contemporary Pacific Trade Diplomacy – Wesley Morgan
2. Pacific Diplomacy and Decolonisation in the 21st Century – Nic Maclellan

 

Appendices

• Thinking ‘Outside the Rocks’: Reimagining the Pacific – Hon. Henry Puna
• Melanesian Spearhead Group: The last 25 years – Sir Michael Somare
• Index

 

 
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