Oceanic Currents

Australia has rolled the dice. AUKUS is a choice Australians make about how best to pursue their security interests.

Small islands developing states (SIDS), no matter where they are, have costs imposed on them by their very nature.

What would be the most beneficial development program the US and other development partners could provide to the people of Solomon Islands?…

Teddy Kafo is a Humphrey Fellow at ASU’s Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Check out his introduction to the United States here.

Statecraft appears in many guises.  Most are apparent, some are not.  In this paper Joanne Wallis, Henrietta McNeill, Alan Tidwell, and Czeslaw Tubilewicz examine some of the different ways in…

In this Ocean Current Occasional Paper, Dr. Eileen Natuzzi examines the vulnerability of Pacific Island country hospitals. They are within the most at risk region worldwide due to being subject…

The China-Solomon Islands security agreement alarms Western countries concerned about China’s growing influence in Oceania. While the agreement is unlikely to result in the establishment of a Chinese military base…

Read about CANZPS affiliate Dr. Eileen Natuzzi's visit to a changing Honiara.

The Honorable David Panuelo, President of the Federated States of Micronesia gives the Peter Tali Coleman Lecture in Pacific Public Policy.

President Joe Biden released the United States’ Pacific partnership strategy. Although it bears some resemblance to the Pacific engagement strategy that was drafted by the Asia–Pacific Security Affairs Subcommittee of…