Overview

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.

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Author:   Greg Fry ,  Sandra Tarte
Publisher:   ANU Press
Imprint:   ANU Press
ISBN:  

9781925022810

ISBN 10:   1925022811
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   01 December 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Overview The 'New Pacific Diplomacy': An introduction ‘Charting its Own Course’: A paradigm shift in Pacific diplomacy The Regional Diplomatic System Towards a New Regional Diplomacy Architecture The Future of the Pacific Islands Forum and the Framework for Pacific Regionalism The New Framework for Pacific Regionalism: Old kava in a new tanoa? Civil Society and the Political Legitimacy of Regional Institutions: An NGO perspective A New Pacific Regional Voice? The Pacific Islands Development Forum The New Pacific Diplomacy at the United Nations: The rise of the PSIDS Fiji’s New Diplomacy Fiji’s Emerging Brand of Pacific Diplomacy: A Fiji government perspective Fiji’s Foreign Policy and the New Pacific Diplomacy Geopolitical Context The Strategic Context of the New Pacific Diplomacy New Zealand and Australia in Pacific Regionalism Sub-Regionalism The Renaissance of the Melanesian Spearhead Group Negotiating the Melanesia Free Trade Area Micronesian Sub-Regional Diplomacy Climate Diplomacy Marshalling a Pacific Response to Climate Change Establishing a Pacific Voice in the Climate Change Negotiations Tuna Diplomacy How Tuna is Shaping Regional Diplomacy The New Pacific Diplomacy and the South Pacific Tuna Treaty Negotiating Trade and Decolonisation Negotiating Power in Contemporary Pacific Trade Diplomacy Pacific Diplomacy and Decolonisation in the 21st Century Appendices Thinking ‘Outside the Rocks’: Reimagining the Pacific Melanesian Spearhead Group: The last 25 years Index

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