Power and Influence in the Pacific Islands

Joanne Wallis is Professor of International Security, 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.

Table of contents

Acknowledgement

Chapter 1 – Understanding and analysing statecraft in the Pacific Islands
Joanne Wallis, Henrietta McNeill, Michael Rose, and Alan Tidwell

Chapter 2 – Pacific Island 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, Feagaimaalii 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