Dr. Gordon Nanau

Lecturer

Politics and International Affairs Program

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

Office: 014 - 201
Tel (679) 323 2480
Fax (679) 323 1524
Email: nanau_g(at)usp.ac.fj

Academic Qualifications

• BA, Postgraduate Diploma, and MA (Development Studies) - University of the South Pacific
• PhD (Development Studies) - East Anglia

Teaching Responsibilities

• Coordinator of the following courses:
  
  • PL203 Contemporary Politics in Melanesia
  • PL307 Political Leadership

Research Interests

• Decentralisation and service delivery
• Governance and reforms in the South Pacific
• Regional and sub-regional politics
• Aid, rural livelihoods and development expectations
• Political (in)stability in the South Pacific
• Natural resource exploitation and development

Recent Publications:

Journal Articles

• 2012.   Federalism, respect and identity. Global: the International Briefing, (First Quarter 2012)
• 2011.  Solomon Islands Political Review 2010. The Contemporary Pacific,23(2): 504-511
• 2011.  The Wantok System as a Socio-economic and Political Network in Melanesia. Omnes: The Journal of Multicultural Society, 2(1): 31-55
• 2010.  Solomon Islands Political Review 2009. The Contemporary Pacific, 22(2): 459-466
• 2002.  Uniting the Fragments: Solomon Islands Constitutional Reforms in Development Bulletin 60: 17-20

Book Chapters:

• 2010.  How Political Parties Do and Do Not Promote Democratic Governance in the Solomon Islands. Eds. Luc Sindjoun and Marian Simms. Political Parties and Democracy in Africa and Oceania (Vol 4). Praeger Publishing: Santa Barbara
• 2008.  Intervention and Nation-Building in Solomon Islands: local Perspectives. Eds. Greg Fry and Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka. Interventionism and state- building in the Pacific: The legitimacy of ’cooperative intervention’. Manchester University Press: Manchester; pp. 149-162
• 1998. Decentralisation reform in the Solomon Islands in Governance Reforms in Melanesia. Ed. Peter Larmour. Australian National University Press: Canberra; pp. 183-199

Book Reviews:

• 2011. Pacific Ways: Government and Politics in the Pacific Islands, edited by Stephen Levine. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2009 in Journal of New Zealand History 45 (1): 140-142 Sp. Iss. APR 2011

Occasional/Working Papers:

• 2011. Logging and Conflict in Birao Ward of Guadalcanal. Islands Knowledge Institute, Working Paper 1 (with Morgan Wairiu)

Recent Conference Presentations

• 2011  “Regional Webs and Sub-regional Affairs: A Glance at the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) in Pacific Regionalism”, a paper presented at the ISA Asia Pacific Regional Section Inaugural Conference 2011, Brisbane (UQ), Australia, 29-30 September.
• 2011  “Educating the People: Governance of Basic Education in the Pacific, 2000-2010”, a paper presented at the Varieties of Governance: Effective Public Service Delivery Workshop, September 1-3, Le Meridien Etoile, Paris, France
• 2011   “Understanding Vulnerability, Insecurity and Instability in Melanesia”, a paper presented at the 14^th Pacific Partnership Meeting of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Society, 11-14 May, Radissons Hotel, Nadi, Fiji. 
• 2011  Discussant, “Financing obstacles faced by micro, small and medium enterprises in the South Pacific”, a paper prepared by Ms. Swastika Naidu and Dr. Anand Chand at the 12^th Annual Global Development Conference Financing Development in a Post-Crisis World: The Need for a Fresh Look, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota – Columbia January 13-15, 2011
• 2010  “Local Kastom and Conventional Law Muddles in a Melanesian Mining Environment”, Future Challenges, Ancient Solution: What we can learn from the past about managing the future in the Pacific, USP, Suva, 29^th November - 3^rd December 2010   
• 2010.   “Teaching International Relations in Oceania: Agendas and Approaches”, a paper presented at the 4^th Oceanic Conference on International Studies, 30 June – 2 July 2010, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
• 2010.  “Local Kastom and Conventional Law Muddles in a Melanesian Mining Environment”, Law and culture: Meaningful legal pluralism in the Pacific and Beyond, 30 August – 1 September 2010, University of the South Pacific Emalus Campus, Port Vila
• 2008.  “Parliamentary Politicking, Political Parties and Governance in Solomon Islands”, Paper tabled at the Oceania Political Parties Workshop, 18-19 April 2008.  St. Margaret’s College Library, University of Otago, New Zealand.
• 2008.  “Ethnicity, Nationhood and (In)security in Solomon Islands, South Pacific”. Paper presented at the 18^th Annual ASEN Conference (Nationalism, East and West: Civic and Ethnic Conceptions of Nationhood, 15-17 April, 2008, London School of Economics and Political Science)