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Author Maclellan, Nic

Title Transforming the regional architecture : new players and challenges for the Pacific islands / Nic Maclellan
Published Honolulu, HI : East-West Center, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (8 pages)
Series AsiaPacific issues, 1522-0966 ; no. 118
Asia-Pacific issues ; no. 8.
Summary Growing debates over the mandate and capacity of regional institutions in the Pacific highlight the complex and cluttered agenda facing island leaders. The Pacific Islands Forum, with a new secretary general and Framework on Pacific Regionalism, is working to forge collective positions among its 16 members. But fundamental policy differences over climate change, trade, and decolonization reinforce the sentiment among islanders that Australia and New Zealand should play a less dominant role within the Forum. The current question of Fiji's reintegration into the Forum overshadows deeper structural changes across the region: Island nations are increasingly looking to nontraditional development partners and using mechanisms outside the Forum. Meanwhile, looming decisions on climate and self-determination seem destined to alienate powerful friends. Pacific islanders want to set the agenda within their own institutions, and are finding it increasingly difficult to paper over contested visions for the future
Notes "August 2015."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 8)
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Pacific Islands Forum. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002086870
Pacific Islands Forum fast
Subject Climatic changes -- Government policy -- Islands of the Pacific
Climatic changes -- Government policy
Economic policy
SUBJECT Islands of the Pacific -- Economic policy
Subject Pacific Ocean -- Islands of the Pacific
Form Electronic book
Author East-West Center.