Director, Politics and International Affairs Program

Politics and International Affairs Programme
School of Government, Development and International Affairs
University of the South Pacific
Laucala Bay Campus
Suva
Fiji Islands

Office: 014 - 254
Tel (679) 323 2577
Fax (679) 323 1506
Email: tarte_s(at)usp.ac.fj

NEW ARTICLE: 'The Pacific Islands in 2012: navigating diplomatic cross currents' (December 2012) - East Asia Forum

Academic Qualifications

• BA (Honours) in Political Science - Melbourne University
• PhD. in East Asian Studies - Australian National University

Teaching Responsibilities

• Coordinator of the following courses:
  • PL201 Introduction to International Politics
  • PL302 International Politics of Asia and the Pacific
  • PL400 Regional Diplomacy in the Pacific islands

Research Interests

• The politics of regional cooperation in the Pacific islands, with special interest in marine resource management
• International politics of the Pacific islands region and foreign policies of Pacific island states
• The politics of aid
• Politics in Fiji
• The role of small island developing states in international politics.

Recent Publications

Book Chapters:

• 2010 - 'Fiji's Look North Strategy and the Role of China' in Terence Wesley-Smith and Edgar A. Porter (Eds), China in Oceania: Towards a New regional Order, Berghahn Books, NY, pp.118-32.
• 2009 - 'The Convention for the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in Western and Central Pacific: Implementation Challenges from a Historical Perspective’, in Quentin Hanich and Martin Tsamenyi (Eds), Navigating Pacific Fisheries: Legal and Policy Trends in the Implementation of International Fisheries in the Western and central Pacific Region,  Ocean Publications, University of Wollongong, pp.204-220.
• 2009 - 'Reflections on Fiji’s Coup Culture', in Jon Fraenkel, Stewart Firth and Brij V. Lal, The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji: A Coup to End all Coups, ANU E Press, Canberra, pp.

Internet Articles

 

• 2012 -'The Pacific islands in 2012: navigating diplomatic cross currents' (December)

• 2012 - 'Japan's Pacific Islands Diplomacy at a Crossroads', East Asia Forum (May)

• 2011 - 'Australia and the Pacific Islands: a loss of focus or a loss of direction?' East Asia Forum (April)

• 2011 - 'Fiji's Search for New Friends', East Asia Forum (January)

• 2010 - 'A Year of Greater Entrenchment for Fiji's Military Regime', East Asia Forum (January)

Conference Papers and Presentations

• 2010 - 'Fiji islands: Security Challenges and Defense Policy Issues', International Workshop on Asia Pacific Security, The National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo, Japan (21-22 January 2010)
• 2010 - 'Teaching International Relations in Oceania: Agendas and Approaches' Panel discussion at the Fourth Oceanic Conference on International Studies, Auckland, 30 June – 2 July 2010.