[PDF] Models Of Regional Governance For The Pacific eBook

Author : Satish Chand
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,50 MB
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 192094253X

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Brings together experts from around the world to consider specific issues pertaining to regional integration and governance within small states. The authors collectively address the challenges posed to small states by the quickened pace of globalisation. The lessons learnt from the experiences of small states are then used to draw policy lessons for the Pacific island countries.

Author : Kennedy Graham
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 24,62 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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"Challenges facing the Pacific's small island countries in the 21st century, and the alternative models of governance that may help them meet those challenges, are explored in a new book from Canterbury University Press. Models of Regional Governance for the Pacific: Sovereignty and the future architecture of regionalism has been edited by former diplomat Dr Kennedy Graham, a Senior Adjunct Fellow in the School of Law at the University of Canterbury. It features contributions from 10 experts on the Pacific region who delivered papers during a symposium held at the University in May 2007." -- Description from publisher website.

Author : Greg Fry
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 45,73 MB
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1760463159

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Since its origins in late eighteenth-century European thought, the idea of placing a regional frame around the Pacific islands has never been just an exercise in geographical mapping. This framing has always been a political exercise. Contending regional projects and visions have been part of a political struggle concerning how Pacific islanders should live their lives. Framing the Islands tells the story of this political struggle and its impact on the regional governance of key issues for the Pacific such as regional development, resource management, security, cultural identity, political agency, climate change and nuclear involvement. It tells this story in the context of a changing world order since the colonial period and of changing politics within the post-colonial states of the Pacific. Framing the Islands argues that Pacific regionalism has been politically significant for Pacific island states and societies. It demonstrates the power associated with the regional arena as a valued site for the negotiation of global ideas and processes around development, security and climate change. It also demonstrates the political significance associated with the role of Pacific regionalism as a diplomatic bloc in global affairs, and as a producer of powerful policy norms attached to funded programs. This study also challenges the expectation that Pacific regionalism largely serves hegemonic powers and that small islands states have little diplomatic agency in these contests. Pacific islanders have successfully promoted their own powerful normative framings of Oceania in the face of the attempted hegemonic impositions from outside the region; seen, for example, in the strong commitment to the ‘Blue Pacific continent’ framing as a guiding ideology for the policy work of the Pacific Islands Forum in the face of pressures to become part of Washington’s Indo-Pacific strategy.

Author : Ian Frazer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351906011

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This comprehensive volume examines the future effectiveness of regional institutions as well as key questions concerning the attempts to overcome ongoing serious problems of security, governance and poor economic performance in the Pacific. What is obvious from this collection is that a new and stronger commitment to overcoming national problems is required through regional cooperation. The volume is highly suited to courses on international political economy, security and regional cooperation.

Author : Peter Larmour
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1922144754

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"With the inevitable lessening of the importance of traditional forms of management of land and water resources in Pacific island countries accompanying the development of the state and the internationalisation of these economies, common property problems have arisen in many natural resource areas. 'This publication covers many of the problem areas which have arisen and discusses various approaches to better management"--Foreword.

Author : Stewart Firth
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 192094298X

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"The Pacific Islands are feeling the effects of globalisation. Free trade in sugar and garments is threatening two of Fiji's key industries. At the same time other opportunities are emerging. Labour migration is growing in importance, and Pacific governments are calling for more access to Australia's labour market. Fiji has joined Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu and Kiribati as a remittance economy, with thousands of its citizens working overseas. Meantime, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands grapple with an older kind of globalisation in which overseas companies exploit mineral and forest resources. The Pacific Islands confront unique problems of governance in this era of globalisation. The modern, democratic state often fits awkwardly with traditional ways of doing politics in that part of the world. Just as often, politicians in the Pacific exploit tradition or invent it to serve modern political purposes. The contributors to this volume examine Pacific globalisation and governance from a wide range of perspectives. They come from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Hawai'i, the Federated States of Micronesia, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand and Jamaica as well as Australia."--Publisher's description.

Author : Roman Grynberg
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Pacific Area
ISBN :

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This ADB-Commonwealth Secretariat Joint Report to the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat analyzes issues and possibilities for the new Pacific regionalism in the context of the commitment of Pacific Island Forum leaders to create a Pacific Plan for Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Integration.

Author : Marc Williams
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319888163

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This book analyses the regional complexes of climate security in the Pacific. Pacific Island States and Territories (PICTs) have long been cast as the frontline of climate change and placed within the grand architecture of global climate governance. The region provides compelling new insights into the ways climate change is constructed, governed, and shaped by (and in turn shapes), regional and global climate politics. By focusing on climate security as it is constructed in the Pacific and how this concept mobilises resources and shapes the implementation of climate finance, the book provides an up-to-date account of the way regional organizations in the Pacific have contributed to the search for solutions to the problem of climate insecurity. In the context of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris in 2015, the focus of this book on regional governance offers a concise and innovative account of climate politics in the prevailing global context and one with implications for the study of climate security in other regions, particularly in the developing world.

Author : Benoit Mayer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2014
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The Asia-Pacific region is particularly concerned by forecasts that hundreds of million persons would be displaced by the mid-century 'because of' environmental change, given the high density of population in low-lying coastal areas and mega-deltas (for example, Ganges-Brahmaputra, Mekong), the high vulnerability of low-lying island developing states (for example, the Maldives, Tuvalu) and the low development of many of those regions. A journalistic but also academic discourse has developed to claim that the international community should protect the 'climate refugees', through extending or replicating the 1951 Geneva Convention on (political) refugees to those displaced by climate change-related environmental changes. However, many field studies have shown that environmental changes do not directly cause specific individual migration, but rather exacerbate existing migration flows. Rejecting the approach of a universal convention, a growing academic consensus is that regional institutions may be more efficient to deal with specific situations. In this context, this article argues that the Asia-Pacific region may play a leading role in defining an international governance of climate migration. It suggests a model of supra-national regional governance, which could serve as benchmarks, along with a multicivilisational forum to work towards universal standards.