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COVID-19 in the Pacific territories: Isolation, borders and the complexities of governance. [PDF]
Asia Pac Policy Stud, 2022 Abstract Early experience of COVID‐19 in seven Pacific politically dependent territories (Guam, American Samoa, Pitcairn, Tokelau, French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna, and New Caledonia) emphasises a diversity of contexts, responses, outcomes and possible futures.
Connell J.
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Regionalism and Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands
Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2014 Institutional developments in Pacific Islands regionalism have been dramatic in recent years. These include the changing role of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement, a grouping of eight ‘tuna‐rich’ Pacific Island states that is transforming the dynamics ...
Sandra Tarte
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INDONESIA’S DEFENSE DIPLOMACY THROUGH HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO FIJI
Dinamika Global, 2022 Natural disasters tend to be vulnerable to attack the Fiji Islands as a Pacific country which is geographically composed of large and small islands. On the other hand, this condition also occurs in Indonesia, which is also an archipelago country that is
Anak Agung Banyu Perwita +3 more
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Complexity, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023 The governance of the political and economic world order builds on a complex architecture of international treaties at various geographical scales. In a historical phase of high institutional turbulence, assessing the stability of such architecture with respect to the unilateral defection of single countries and the breakdown of single treaties is ...
Pier Luigi Sacco +3 more
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Fiji economic survey: Low growth the new normal?
Asia &the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 7, Issue 2, Page 145-157, May 2020., 2020 Abstract This article reviews the performance of the Fijian economy from 2015 to 2019. After several years of decent growth (around 5%), GDP growth fell to as low as 0.5% in 2019. Earlier hopes that a ‘new normal’ of GDP growth of around 5% per annum had been established have faded.
Neelesh Gounder
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Melanesia’s test: The political quandary of West Papua
Pacific Journalism Review, 2014 West Papuans often say that the conflict in their homeland, the self-determination struggle against Indonesian territorial control and the impact of a heavy military presence, are a regional issue.
Johnny Blades
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Equality without equivalence: an anthropology of the common★
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 146-166, March 2020., 2020 Abstract This article elaborates an Amazonian conception of the common and the challenge it poses to Western thinking about individualism and equality. It is suggested that a number of distinctive features of Amazonian Urarina sociality may have their basis in a shared refusal of factors that give rise to relations of equivalence between people.
Harry Walker
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Watching this space, West Papua
Pacific Journalism Review, 2016 COMMENTARY: President Joko Widodo’s announcement in May 2015 that Indonesia would allow foreign journalists to have access to West Papua was widely, but cautiously, welcomed.
Johnny Blades
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Pacific Journalism Review, 2018 Auckland University of Technology’s Pacific Media Centre marked its tenth anniversary with a seminar discussing two of the wider region’s most critical media freedom crises.
Johnny Blades
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Citizen media and civil resistance in West Papua
Pacific Journalism Review, 2016 This article charts the dynamics and trajectory of citizen media activism in West Papua’s fight for freedom which has progressed from not even registering in news rooms around the world to influencing sub-regional and regional bodies.
Jason MacLeod
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