Pacific Islands Regional Integration and Governance
Title | Pacific Islands Regional Integration and Governance PDF eBook |
Author | Satish Chand |
Publisher | ANU E Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2005-11-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 192094253X |
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.
Models of Regional Governance for the Pacific
Title | Models of Regional Governance for the Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | Kennedy Graham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Political Science |
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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.
Redefining the Pacific?
Title | Redefining the Pacific? PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Frazer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2017-05-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1351906011 |
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.
Government and Public Policy in the Pacific Islands
Title | Government and Public Policy in the Pacific Islands PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Hassall |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2020-11-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1789736153 |
This book is a comparative study of government and public policy in the twenty small states of the Pacific Islands, examining the often tense societal interactions over competing conceptions of public-sector institutions and authority, rule-making, and policy processes.
Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands
Title | Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands PDF eBook |
Author | Stewart Firth |
Publisher | ANU E Press |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2006-12-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 192094298X |
"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.
Framing the Islands
Title | Framing the Islands PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Fry |
Publisher | ANU Press |
Pages | 419 |
Release | 2019-10-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1760463159 |
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.
Governing Regional Integration for Development
Title | Governing Regional Integration for Development PDF eBook |
Author | Antoni Estevadeordal |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2016-04-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317125592 |
Developing countries have joined the rapidly growing global system of regional trade agreements (RTAs) over the past years. The drive towards regional integration has advanced with the formation of new markets and groups in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Oceania with few developing countries remaining outside these regional schemes. This volume looks at how 'getting governance right' is a central element for successful RTA implementation, taking stock of the quality and effectiveness of the monitoring of development country RTAs around the world. Organized by the main world regions and primarily focusing on developing country RTAs, the book also includes two case studies focused on monitoring in developed country regional agreements by way of comparison. The contributors operationalize governance in the context of RTA implementation with a more narrow and technical term of 'monitoring' and provide eight important lessons for assessing monitoring around the world.