The New Pacific Diplomacy

Greg Fry, Sandra Tarte, Greg Fry, Sandra Tarte

• Publisher: ANU Press
• Year: 2015
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781925022827
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• List of Contributors
• 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