US touch and go diplomacy with Solomon Islands
Monday
15th August
2022
EILEEN NATUZZI | For the past two decades US foreign engagement with Solomon Islands has practised touch-and-go diplomacy:…
Category Archive: Feature series
Cold war in paradise―Labor’s new diplomacy in the Pacific
Tuesday
14th June
2022
TIM HARCOURT | Did you hear? There’s a cold war in Paradise. China’s geo-strategic thrust into the Pacific…
2050: A Pacific geostrategic vision for the world’s only Blue Continent
Tuesday
9th August
2022
AUDREY AUMUA AND SOLI MIDDLEBY | Considering recent commentary on the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) and Pacific…
The Pacific Step-up: Drowning not waving
Friday
20th May
2022
PAUL SLATER | In 1999, tensions between ethnic groups in Solomon Islands were rising. For anyone who…
Looking north: Australia’s engagement with the “Compact States”
Tuesday
17th May
2022
ISABELLA BROWN AND TESS NEWTON CAIN | The “Compact States” are those countries that are in free association…
Not the Indo-Pacific: A Melanesian view on strategic competition
Monday
24th April
2023
PATRICK KAIKU | Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare recently affirmed his country’s adherence to the “friend to all,…
Emerging disease and emerging economies: The capacity of Pacific health systems in the face of COVID-19
Friday
27th March
2020
How will Pacific Island and Territories respond to the global pandemic, Covid19.
The great ‘Global Coronavirus Crisis’ and the PICs
Friday
8th May
2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the globe very hard, especially given the economies were still recovering from…
Monetary policy statement by the Governor of the Bank of Papua New Guinea
Monday
25th May
2020
The spread of Coronavirus, Covid-19, and its adverse impact through the disruption of production and supply chains, commodity and…
Capacity building and central banking in the Pacific
Friday
29th May
2020
COVID-19 has no doubt brought back to the policymaking table many lingering, once believed to be settled, issues—much more…