1st Edition
Security Cooperation in the Pacific Islands Politics, Priorities, and Pathways of the Regional Security Patchwork
Foreword
Dame Meg Taylor
1. Introduction: Security cooperation in the Pacific Islands
Joanne Wallis, Henrietta McNeill, James Batley and Anna Powles
Part 1: Regional Security Cooperation
2. The role of the Pacific Islands Forum in regional security cooperation
Sandra Tarte
3. The Boe Declaration: More than reconceptualising security
Solstice Middleby and Leituala Kuiniselani Toelupe Tago
4. International organisations and security cooperation in the Pacific Islands
Stewart Firth
5. The Pacific Islands and global security challenges
Milla Vaha and Anna Powles
Part 2: Partner Perspectives on Security Cooperation
6. The Australian perspective on security cooperation in the Pacific Islands
James Batley
7. Security stakeholder and security partner: Aotearoa New Zealand’s approach to security cooperation in the Pacific Islands
Anna Powles
8. United States security cooperation among the Pacific Islands
Alan Tidwell
9. The Japanese perspective on Pacific security cooperation: Japan’s re-emerging geopolitical turn
Hidekazu Sakai
10. The French perspective on Pacific security cooperation
Caroline Gravelat
11. China’s security interest in the Pacific region: Chinese and Pacific perceptions
Denghua Zhang
12. Security cooperation in Oceania: An Oceanic perspective
William Britt III, Randizia Crisostomo, Keola Donaghy, Mizuki Hassell, Hetereki Huke, Michael Mullaney, Kalei Pember, Aya Shirayama, Taufa Setefano, John Jimione Brandon Taukäve, Bruce Kaʻimi Watson and Tarcisius Kabutaulaka
Part 3: Thematic Approaches to Security Cooperation
13. Human security in pandemic times: The case of regional cooperation and local responses
Steven Ratuva
14. Health security cooperation in the Pacific Islands
Georgia Whitta, Roannie Ng Shiu and Sir Collin Tukuitonga
15. Rifts in resilience: Pacific humanitarian response and security
Meg Keen
16. Climate ‘securitising’ by the Pacific
17. Security cooperation and fisheries in the Pacific
Bianca Haas, Kamal Azmi, Kerrie Robertson, Transform Aqorau and Quentin Hanich
18. Border security cooperation to combat transnational crime in the Pacific Islands
Henrietta McNeill
19. Security cooperation to combat corruption in the Pacific: A regional approach
Teddy Winn
20. Conclusion
Maualaivao Maima Koro and Joanne Wallis
Biography
Joanne Wallis is Professor of International Security and Research Director of the Stretton Institute ‘Security in the Pacific Islands’ program at the University of Adelaide, and Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution.
Henrietta McNeill is Research Fellow in Pacific security in the Department of Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University.
James Batley is Distinguished Policy Fellow in the Department of Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University.
Anna Powles is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at Massey University.
