Pacific Islands countries face the classic challenge as strategic competition unfolds across the Indo-Pacific, finding themselves wedged, like the proverbial meat in the sandwich, between two great powers. Small states…
At 5PM (EST), November 2, Dame Meg Taylor, Secretary-General of the Pacific Island Forum will talk about Blue Pacific Futures. Home to more than 12 million people the Blue Continent…
Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR) - the only living organism visible from space - is under threat. This global icon and UNESCO World Heritage Site may not last out the…
On Saturday, October 17, 2020 New Zealand will hold their general election. Labour should win, but will they form government on their own, or will they require support from one…
Washington should build upon new Congressional initiatives to strengthen its alliances and partnerships with Pacific Islands Countries (PICs). It can best do so by looking beyond bilateral relationships to better…
Alan Tidwell examines how the tyranny of distance has long shaped Australian strategic thinking. The defence of Australia has been challenged by and benefitted from that distance.
For 3 decades, citizens of Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Palau have been able to live and work in the U.S. indefinitely without a…
Starting in 1946 the United States, followed by the United Kingdom and France, began long period of nuclear testing the Pacific. One hundred and five atmospheric and underwater tests were…
Previously known as Truk, Chuuk is a geographical expanse of islands in the Western Pacific barely 1,000 kilometers from the U.S. unincorporated territory of Guam. Chuuk is one of four…
Alan Tidwell Photo by Alec Wilson, 2014. A quick global survey of the impact of COVID-19 shows that few countries have managed stem the virus’s onslaught. …
Washington should look anew at its relations with Pacific Island Countries (PICs), particularly as it begins to focus greater attention on the important role of the Melanesian states in Pacific…
Ambassador C. Steven McGann (ret), Dr. Emil Friberg and Dr. Gerard A. Finin will discuss Compacts of Free Association via Zoom video conference on 3/31.
On February 24 at 4:00pm, photographer John Moore will give a talk on the survivors of the ongoing bushfires in Australia. This event is hosted by the GU Institute for…
The bushfires in Australia continue as I write this and so it may seem somewhat premature to think about their electoral consequences. Nonetheless, both the government and the opposition have…
Alan Tidwell, CANZPS Director Image by Cherrie Mio Rhodes. Taken March 2, 2011 at Lotofaga Elementary School. The tragic story of the measles outbreak in Samoa helps to shine a…
Ambassador C. Steven McGann (retired) Tarawa, Kiribati Forty years have passed since the signing of the 1979 Treaty of Friendship between the United States and the Republic…
