The South Pacific : problems, issues, and prospects
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The South Pacific : problems, issues, and prospects
Macmillan in association with the University of Otago, 1991
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Papers of the Twenty-fifth Otago Foreign Policy School, 1990
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The Geographic location of the Island States in the South Pacific gives them a political and economic importance transcending their small size. Regional tranquility was disturbed in the late 1980s by pockets of instabilities, posing difficult policy challenges to near and distant observers. "Wall of Death" driftnet fishing tugs at the heart strings; subsistence economies pull at purse strings; events divide heart (defence of indigenous rights) from mind (unacceptability of overthrow of democratic government, imposition of racist constitution, denial of human rights); nuclear testing seems to defy all reason; and rising sea levels caused by global warming capture the imagination but threaten to drown island nations of the South Pacific. As New Zealanders come to terms in 1990 with their identity as a Pacific people, it is appropriate that the Twenty-fifth Otago Foreign Policy School should have focused on the South Pacific. Publication of the proceedings of the School aims to contribute to a clearer understanding of the region, and to a better appreciation of challenges and opportunities for foreign policy for all countries interacting with the South Pacific.
Table of Contents
- List of Map, Tables and Figures - Contributors - Preface - Introduction to the South Pacific
- R.Thakur New Zealand and the South Pacific
- F.Wilde - Redefining South Pacific Security: Greening and Domestication
- P.King - Environmental Problems in the Pacific Island Region: Challenges and Responses
- R.Ferguson - Fisheries Management in the South Pacific: The Role of the Forum Fisheries Agency
- D.J.Doulman - Driftnet Fishing in the South Pacific
- M.Hagler - France as a South Pacific Actor
- G.Martins - Peoples of the South Pacific and Their Rights
- R.G.Mulgan - The Long Dark Tea-time of the South: New Zealand's Search for a Pacific Identity
- W.Ihimaera - Migration and Development in the Pacific Islands: Reflections on Recent Trends and Issues
- R.Bedford - The Politics of South Pacific Regional Cooperation
- G.Fry - Regional Trade
- H.F.Naisali - Australia and New Zealand from a Distance
- M.M.Taylor - Concluding Observations
- R.A.Herr - Appendix 1: Summary of Recommendations of the South Pacific Policy Review Group - Appendix 2: Participants - Index
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