1st Edition
Power and Influence in the Pacific Islands Understanding Statecraftiness
Table of contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgement
Chapter 1 – Understanding and analysing statecraft in the Pacific Islands
Joanne Wallis, Henrietta McNeill, Michael Rose, and Alan Tidwell
Chapter 2 – Pacific Islands' statecraft: where relationships are more important than might and money
Derek Futaiasi, Priestley Habru, Maima Koro, William Waqavakatoga, and Henrietta McNeill
Chapter 3 – Scholarships as tools of statecraft
Priestley Habru, Wilhelmina Utukana, Feagaima'ali'i Soti Mapu, Jim Tawa Biliki, and Epo Mark
Chapter 4 – Reimagining economic tools of statecraft
Maima Koro and Henrietta McNeill
Chapter 5 – Australia and the United States’ defence diplomacy
Joanne Wallis, Quentin Hanich, Michael Rose, and Alan Tidwell
Chapter 6 – The ‘Blue Pacific’ strategic narrative as a tool of Pacific statecraft
Joanne Wallis, Maima Koro, and Corey O’Dwyer
Chapter 7 – The United States’ statecraft in the Pacific Islands
Alan Tidwell and Joanne Wallis
Chapter 8 – Australia’s statecraft towards its ‘Pacific family’
Joanne Wallis
Chapter 9 –New Zealand’s statecraft ‘in and of the Pacific’
Henrietta McNeill
Chapter 10 – Asia in the Pacific: India, Indonesia, Japan, and Korea’s statecraft in the Pacific Islands
Joanne Wallis, Chloe Le, and Alexander Jun-Li Yeong
Chapter 11 – European statecraft in the Pacific Islands
Henrietta McNeill and Nicholas Ross Smith
Chapter 12 – China’s strategic narratives in the Pacific
Geyi Xie
Chapter 13 – How do Pacific Island countries respond to China’s statecraft?
William Waqavakatoga, Priestley Habru, and Maima Koro
Biography
Joanne Wallis is Professor of International Security and director of the Stretton Institute ‘Security in the Pacific Islands’ research program at the University of Adelaide, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is the author or editor of ten books on security in the Pacific Islands region.
Henrietta McNeill is a Research Fellow in the Department of Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University. She has published in Political Geography, The Contemporary Pacific, and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific. She was awarded a 2021 Fulbright New Zealand General Graduate Award.
Michael Rose is an anthropologist and adjunct fellow of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Adelaide.
Alan Tidwell is Professor of Practice and Director of the Center for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies (CANZPS) at the Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service. His areas of interest include Australian-American relations, smaller states of Oceania, and conflict resolution.
