Author: M. ANNE BROWN.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Politics, Development and Security in Oceania
Author: David HegartyPublisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1922144878
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"French and Australian collaborative research in the humanities and the social sciences in the South Pacific has grown and intensified significantly over the past two decades, beginning with the international symposium Changing Identities in the Pacific at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century held at the Australian Embassy in Paris in 1997 ... In April 2006, another French-government sponsored international symposium, AGORA (Ateliers Gouvernance et Recherche Appliquée) was held at IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement), Noumea, New Caledonia, major themes being governance and economic development, again bringing together Francophone and Anglophone scholars from France and the Pacific region. This was followed in October 2009 by two conjoint Francophone/Anglophone conferences, held at the IRD Centre in Noumea, Stability, Security and Development in Oceania, preceded by AGORA-2, an international conference on Anglophone research in the humanities and the social sciences in the Francophone Pacific, sponsored by the French Government and the Government of New Caledonia. The first of these conferences was sponsored by the French Fonds Pacifique and the State, Society and Governance Program at The Australian National University. An edited selection of presentations from this symposium constitutes the present volume."--Preface.
Development and Security in the Pacific
Author: Helen Ruth Elizabeth WarePublisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
DEVELOPMENT AND SECURITY IN THE PACIFIC ISLAND REGION.
Author: M. ANNE BROWN.Contested Terrain
Author: Steven RatuvaPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760463205
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Contested Terrain provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive and innovative approach to critically analysing the multidimensional and contested nature of security narratives, justified by different ideological, political, cultural and economic rationales. This is important in a complex and ever-changing situation involving a dynamic interplay between local, regional and global factors. Security narratives are constructed in multiple ways and are used to frame our responses to the challenges and threats to our sense of safety, wellbeing, identity and survival but how the narratives are constructed is a matter of intellectual and political contestation. Using three case studies from the Pacific (Fiji, Tonga and Solomon Islands), Contested Terrain shows the different security challenges facing each country, which result from their unique historical, political and socio-cultural circumstances. Contrary to the view that the Pacific is a generic entity with common security issues, this book argues for more localised and nuanced approaches to security framing and analysis.
Environment, Development and Security in Pacific Island Countries
Author: Jon BarnettPublisher:
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Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 13
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Asia-Pacific Security Challenges
Author: Anthony J. MasysPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 331961729X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This edited book examines the contemporary regional security concerns in the Asia-Pacific recognizing the ‘Butterfly effect’, the concept that small causes can have large effects: ‘the flap of a butterfly’s wings can cause a typhoon halfway around the world’. For many Asia-Pacific states, domestic security challenges are at least as important as external security considerations. Recent events (both natural disasters and man-made disasters) have pointed to the inherent physical, economic, social and political vulnerabilities that exist in the region. Both black swan events and persistent threats to security characterize the challenges within the Asia-Pacific region. Transnational security challenges such as global climate change, environmental degradation, pandemics, energy security, supply chain security, resource scarcity, terrorism and organized crime are shaping the security landscape regionally and globally. The significance of emerging transnational security challenges in the Asia-Pacific Region impact globally and conversely, security developments in those other regions affect the Asia-Pacific region.
Security and Development in the Pacific Islands
Author: M. Anne BrownPublisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Reflecting a growing awareness of the need to integrate security and development agendas in the field of conflict management, the authors of this original volume focus on the case of the Pacific Islands. In the process, they also reveal the sociopolitical diversity, cultural richness, and social resilience of a little-known region. Their work not only offers insight into the societies discussed, but also speaks to the realities of political community and state-building efforts throughout the developing world.M. Anne Brown is research fellow at the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland. She is author of Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering: The Promotion of Human Rights in International Politics. Contents: Security and Development: Conflict and Resilience in the South Pacific?M.A. Brown. Local Solutions: Security and Development in Papua New Guinea?M. Jacka. Power, Gender, and Security in Papua New Guinea?O. Sepoe. Police Reform in Papua New Guinea?A. McLeod. Development and Conflict: The Struggle for Self-Determination in Bougainville?A. Regan. Development and Self-Determination in New Caledonia?P. DeDeckker. Conflict and Reconciliation in New Caledonia?N. McLellan. Self-Determination and Autonomy: The Meaning of Freedom in West Papua?J. MacLeod. External Intervention: The Solomon Islands Beyond RAMSI?C. Moore. The Paradox of Multiculturalism: Ethno-Political Conflict in Fiji?S. Ratuva. Elite Conflict in Vanuatu?G. Hassall. Troubled Times: Development and Economic Crisis in Nauru?M. Quanchi. Unfinished Business: Democratic Transition in Tonga?L. Senituli. Conclusion: Community, Region, and Partnership?M.A. Brown.
Framing the Islands
Author: Greg FryPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760463159
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
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.
Food Security in Asia and the Pacific
Author: Asian Development BankPublisher: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9292542257
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This synthesis report is the result of close, collaborative research initiated by the Asian Development Bank in partnership with Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada; the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation; and the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia. Fourteen background papers were commissioned to investigate food security issues particularly pertinent for Asia and the Pacific. The report synthesizes and collates the primary findings from these papers to articulate key policy challenges and opportunities related to food security in the region.
Western Involvement in the Pacific Islands Region
Author: Patranan PattiyaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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