Pacific Institute of Public Policy

WTO: Where are we heading?

Kaliopate Tavola discusses the issues central to the future of the WTO. As a former WTO permanent representative, he says despite all overtures at reforming it, this global international organization is fracturing and may be beyond repair.
Fisheries as foreign policy

The United States Multilateral Fisheries Treaty benefitted the United States and not Pacific island governments because the conditions for equity based on resource ownership and appropriate sharing were not considered in the treaty, writes Walter Diamana.
Island geostrategy

Kaliopate Tavola asks if a 'stable regional order’ as envisioned by Australia and New Zealand is being achieved at a time when their inclusion in Pacific regional architecture is being questioned.

20 March, 2015

PiPP Staff

AFTERMATH – CYCLONE PAM

Vanuatu has survived the initial impact, but now needs to survive the outcome of this unprecedented weather event.

10 March, 2015

Mathew Morris

The proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out a bold vision for sustainable development, and without doubt the world has the resources and the know-how to make it a reality, but the question remains whether global institutions and sovereign states can rise to the challenge.

9 March, 2015

Dan McGarry

The intelligence game

It’s become fashionable these days to treat wholesale electronic surveillance as an inevitable and really-not-so-horrible thing. That’s exactly the wrong conclusion to draw. Pacific island governments could be doing more to protect themselves.

6 March, 2015

PiPP Staff

YOUR SAY

PiPP, together with RMIT University, want to hear from you on the new set of sustainable development goals to be agreed by world leaders in September. Through this short online survey, we want to include voices from the Pacific in this important global debate.

5 March, 2015

Ben Bohane

Shell shocked

Australia’s proposed ban on the importation of kava is insensitive and will damage business. Kava is not just a product, it is part of our culture; a beverage that acts as social glue, a way to commune with ancestral spirits and one that binds communities together.

MSG can direct Pacific regionalism to greater heights

3 March, 2015

Kaliopate Tavola

MSG can direct Pacific regionalism to greater heights

Pacific regionalism is in dire need of a coordinated leadership now, says Kaliopate Tavola. With new leadership of the Pacific Islands Forum, he looks optimistically at the potential for growing interconnectedness between the PIF and the Melanesian Spearhead Group.

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BEYOND FISH AND COCONUTS

DP03 – Are the islands heading for a free-trade paradise or are they forever lumbered with a colonial inheritance.
UNSURE REFUGE

DP25 – Predatory lending practices are leading some Pacific island countries toward insolvency.
PATRIOT GAMES

DP21 – Around the Pacific new superpower alliances, new fault-lines and new opportunities are opening up after decades of neglect. But Pacific voices need to be heard too.

IN PICTURES

In a historic presentation, West Papuan leaders representing their newly unified movement, have applied for membership of the MSG. Dan McGarry captures the ceremony in a photo essay.
EYES IN THE SKY

Ben Bohane joins Guam Battalion troops being trained in the use of drones.
ROCKET CITY

Ben Bohane moves with Guam Battalion down to Kandahar, whose large airfield is the jump-off point to various bases in the south and, it seems, often comes under attack.