State Capture: Behind Sogavare’s marriage of convenience with China
Introduction Solomon Islands has emerged as Australia’s most consequential single security concern in the Pacific Island region today. The international dimension …
Introduction Solomon Islands has emerged as Australia’s most consequential single security concern in the Pacific Island region today. The international dimension …
With US leadership unable to guarantee peace and security in the Indo-Pacific this century, the region will need to transition …
Inventive foreign policy that can simultaneously reassure the Indo-Pacific’s established powers and accommodate Chinese ambitions is urgently needed. This report …
The Future Submarine Project – replacement of Australia’s 6 ailing Collins Class submarines with 12 Future Submarines – has a …
All Southeast Asian states want to take advantage of the benefits of a rising China, yet none wants it to …
Australians have become accustomed to bad news from the Pacific islands. Conflict in the Solomon Islands, coups in Fiji, murders …
The Solomon Islands, with a population of 500,000, is the third-largest state in the Pacific. It is also one of …
The rapid spread of HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea has created a health emergency. At least 120,000 Papua New Guineans …
The Pacific, rather than being famous for blue waters and sandy beaches, is fast gaining a reputation for hosting corrupt, …
Following the formation of the European Union, regional economic integration has been sought as path to rapid development by several …
Indonesian president-elect Prabowo Subianto visiting Australia before he has even been inaugurated is a positive sign. But the history of …
In five decades of living alternately on the two sides of the Pacific, I have never seen anything like it. …
US midterm elections are always a vote of confidence in incumbents, and this year’s midterms are expected to inflict severe …
In 2014, I wrote a short piece on the Pacific Islands that found its way, surprisingly, across the globe and into the Bangladeshi …
The Biden campaign this week announced its vision to ‘build back better’ — arguing “this is no time to just …
As China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) marches west through Southern Asia, diplomatic envoys criss-cross the Indo-pacific like honeybees; collecting …
China’s increasing aid and infrastructure projects in the Pacific have stirred considerable media attention. But does Beijing’s growing reach pose …
The villagers of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, together with those of Fiji's military dictatorship where living standards …
AT the Shangri-La Dialogue meeting of defence ministers in Singapore last month, Indian Defence Minister Pallam Raju was asked whether …
The Prime Minister (unelected) of Fiji, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama has succeeded in attracting the leaders of the Melanesian Spearhead Group …