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View article: Where are the Pacific Islands in the Political Science and International Relations scholarship?
Where are the Pacific Islands in the Political Science and International Relations scholarship? Open
A decade ago, Amitav Acharya outlined his ‘new agenda’ for International Relations (IR) scholars: ‘Global International Relations’. This article seeks to modestly move forward two aspects of the Global IR agenda. First, we foreground a reg…
View article: Power and Influence in the Pacific Islands
Power and Influence in the Pacific Islands Open
This book outlines an analytical framework to understand power, influence, and statecraft in the Pacific Islands region. With contributions by scholars from the United States, Australia, China, New Zealand, and across the Pacific Islands r…
View article: The Pacific Islands and Chinese power as presence, influence, and interference
The Pacific Islands and Chinese power as presence, influence, and interference Open
Dominant debates about China’s growing presence in the Pacific Islands – through infrastructure, aid, trade, and investment – suggest that Chinese material power directly translates to influence and effective interference in Pacific states…
View article: The United States as a ‘Pacific Nation’: Imaginary, Performance, and Spatialisation
The United States as a ‘Pacific Nation’: Imaginary, Performance, and Spatialisation Open
In 2012, then United States (US) Secretary of State Hilary Clinton attended the leaders' meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum, the region's pre-eminent politics and security-focused multilateral institution. At the meeting, Clinton remarke…
View article: Ordering the Islands? Pacific Responses to China’s Strategic Narratives
Ordering the Islands? Pacific Responses to China’s Strategic Narratives Open
Metropolitan powers are concerned that China is seeking to influence Pacific Island countries and reshape Pacific Islands’ regional order in its favour. But there is a risk that the effectiveness of China’s efforts has been overinterpreted…
View article: An emotions agenda for peace: Connections beyond feelings, power beyond violence
An emotions agenda for peace: Connections beyond feelings, power beyond violence Open
While the ‘emotion turn’ has emerged as an influential analytical lens in International Relations (IR), there is not yet a well-developed understanding of the role that emotions play in facilitating or inhibiting peace. This special issue …
View article: The enclosure and exclusion of Australia's ‘Pacific family’
The enclosure and exclusion of Australia's ‘Pacific family’ Open
Since 2018 the Australian government has displayed anxiety about its apparently declining influence in the Pacific Islands region due to the growing presence of China, a power with potentially inimical interests. The government has long be…
View article: How do the emotional and embodied experiences of international interveners influence their understanding and practice of peacebuilding?
How do the emotional and embodied experiences of international interveners influence their understanding and practice of peacebuilding? Open
What happens if international interveners feel emotions that they consider unsanctioned, unwanted and unprofessional? What if they enact and manage their emotions in ways that they – or others – deem unacceptable? If international interven…
View article: Tā, Vā, and Lā: Re-imagining the geopolitics of the Pacific Islands
Tā, Vā, and Lā: Re-imagining the geopolitics of the Pacific Islands Open
Oceanic perspectives seldom appear in the geopolitical discourse of metropolitan powers, and the agency of Pacific Island states and peoples is often overlooked. Inspired by calls from political geographers for ‘a more ambitious geopolitic…
View article: Security cooperation in the Pacific Islands: architecture, complex, community, or something else?
Security cooperation in the Pacific Islands: architecture, complex, community, or something else? Open
In the 2018 Boe Declaration, Pacific Islands Forum leaders recognized that the region is facing ‘an increasingly complex regional security environment’ and committed to ‘strengthening the existing regional security architecture’. Given unc…
View article: Evaluating the Legacy of State-building in Timor-Leste
Evaluating the Legacy of State-building in Timor-Leste Open
With the benefit of almost 20 years of hindsight, in this article we evaluate the legacy of state-building in Timor-Leste. We find that much of the academic critique of the state-building mission has proven to be largely accurate: politica…
View article: Mapping Security Cooperation in the Pacific Islands - Research Report
Mapping Security Cooperation in the Pacific Islands - Research Report Open
In the 2018 Boe Declaration on Regional Security, Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders recognised that the Pacific Islands region is facing ‘an increasingly complex regional security environment driven by multifaceted security challenges’. …
View article: The role played by reconciliation in social reconstruction in Bougainville
The role played by reconciliation in social reconstruction in Bougainville Open
Harvey Weinstein lamented that, as a field, 'we have not been successful at promoting a research agenda that values the study of effectiveness' (Weinstein 2011, 1).Instead, much of the literature has assumed that transitional justice plays…
View article: Civil Society and Transitional Justice in Asia and the Pacific
Civil Society and Transitional Justice in Asia and the Pacific Open
Over the last two decades, civil society has helped catalyse responses to the legacies of violent conflicts and oppressive political regimes in Asia and the Pacific. Civil society has advocated for the establishment of criminal trials and …
View article: How Does the 'Pacific' Fit into the 'Indo-Pacific'? The Changing Geopolitics of the Pacific Islands: Workshop Report
How Does the 'Pacific' Fit into the 'Indo-Pacific'? The Changing Geopolitics of the Pacific Islands: Workshop Report Open
How does the Pacific fit into the Indo-Pacific? Read a summary of the thoughts of Pacific, NZ and Australian speakers on the changing geopolitics of the region during a recent workshop at the ANU.
View article: Australia and New Zealand in the Pacific Islands: Ambiguous Allies?
Australia and New Zealand in the Pacific Islands: Ambiguous Allies? Open
In this Centre of Gravity paper, Dr Joanne Wallis, Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, and Dr Anna Powles, Senior Lecturer in Security Studies in the Centre for Defence and Security Studies …
View article: Hybridity in peacebuilding and development: a critical approach
Hybridity in peacebuilding and development: a critical approach Open
The concept of hybridity has been used in numerous ways by scholars across a range of disciplines to generate important analytical and methodological insights. Its most recent application in the social sciences has also attracted powerful …
View article: Money, Manipulation and Misunderstanding on Manus Island
Money, Manipulation and Misunderstanding on Manus Island Open
The treatment of asylum seekers at the Manus Island Regional Processing Centre in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has attracted much international attention, but there has been little analysis of its local and transnational impact. This article inv…
View article: The South Pacific in the 2016 Defence White Paper: Anxiety, Ambivalence and Ambiguity
The South Pacific in the 2016 Defence White Paper: Anxiety, Ambivalence and Ambiguity Open
Australia’s geography does not change; the South Pacific (Papua New
\nGuinea, Timor-Leste and the Pacific Island Countries) will always lie across
\nsome of our most important air and sea lines of communication.