Oceanic Currents

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…

CANZPS director Alan Tidwell explains the role of Australia and New Zealand in the context of a global US-China rivalry.

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…

Both Americans and Australians should know more about two Aussies, Harry Bridges and Rosemary Gillespie.

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…

In a blog post for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, CANZPS director Alan Tidwell explains the impact of China’s leasing the island of Tulagi from the Solomon Islands and involvement…

CANZPS Director Dr. Alan Tidwell explains how Australia could remedy a lack of “institutional knowledge” about the Pacific among major international players and combat growing Chinese influence in the region…