Overview

The 'New Pacific Diplomacy': An introduction

‘Charting its Own Course’: A paradigm shift in Pacific diplomacy

The Regional Diplomatic System

Towards a New Regional Diplomacy Architecture

The Future of the Pacific Islands Forum and the Framework for Pacific Regionalism

The New Framework for Pacific Regionalism: Old kava in a new tanoa?

Civil Society and the Political Legitimacy of Regional Institutions: An NGO perspective

A New Pacific Regional Voice? The Pacific Islands Development Forum

The New Pacific Diplomacy at the United Nations: The rise of the PSIDS

Fiji’s New Diplomacy

Fiji’s Emerging Brand of Pacific Diplomacy: A Fiji government perspective

Fiji’s Foreign Policy and the New Pacific Diplomacy

Geopolitical Context

The Strategic Context of the New Pacific Diplomacy

New Zealand and Australia in Pacific Regionalism

Sub-Regionalism

The Renaissance of the Melanesian Spearhead Group

Negotiating the Melanesia Free Trade Area

Micronesian Sub-Regional Diplomacy

Climate Diplomacy

Marshalling a Pacific Response to Climate Change

Establishing a Pacific Voice in the Climate Change Negotiations

Tuna Diplomacy

How Tuna is Shaping Regional Diplomacy

The New Pacific Diplomacy and the South Pacific Tuna Treaty

Negotiating Trade and Decolonisation

Negotiating Power in Contemporary Pacific Trade Diplomacy

Pacific Diplomacy and Decolonisation in the 21st Century

Appendices