Kalio Tavola continues the debate on regionalism with a look at Australian and New Zealand influence and Fiji’s significant role to play in any architecture.
As Fiji threatens not to attend the upcoming Pacific Islands Forum meeting in PNG and Australia postpones a planned summit of leaders, Kalafi Moala probes the regionalism debate.
Kaliopate Tavola examines some of the self-evident advice from this major multilateral donor on innovative approaches to tackling the many complex and unique sustainable development challenges facing the Pacific’s small island states.
Pacific leaders should embrace the opportunity to recalibrate our regionalism project. Let’s not fool ourselves, the discussions ahead will be difficult, but there is much to hope for if discussions progress ahead of the Sydney meeting.
The Office of Development Effectiveness at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade commissioned a think piece from PiPP as part of its evaluation on ‘Thinking and Working Politically’.