Comparative analyses have found that non-self-governing islands tend to have much better
development indicators than sovereign islands. Perhaps unsurprisingly, since 1983 no non …

The South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu simultaneously experienced the two major types
of colonialism of the modern era (British and French), the only instance in which these …

One of the key principles for effective aid programmes is that recipient agencies exert high
degrees of ownership over the agendas, resources, systems and outcomes of aid activities …

Discourses of kastom (or kastam, kastomu, as conspicuous tradition is labelled in
Melanesian Pidgin English) reverberated promisingly for young political elites in the 1970s …

This book takes “legally sovereign states as its point of departure and primary object of
study”(Baldacchino and Wivel, 2020, p. 6, this volume). Introducing a chapter on small …

The North-South divide is one of the central political characteristics of the UN climate
change negotiations. But while the Group of 77 coalition has been the main negotiating …

The place of the South Pacific Island states in the previous world order was far from
established. 1 Thus we approach the region after the Cold War without any obvious status …

The determinants and direction of Papua New Guinea's foreign policy have in some ways
been untypical of those of other third world states. At the time of its independence in 1975 …

The passing of the Cold War has had little real impact on the security situation of the island
states of the South Pacific. The widely held assumption of the later 198Os, that the region …