Review of the New Pacific Diplomacy
Author: Robert Nicole
The basic argument advanced in this fine book is that since 2009 and Fiji’s suspension from the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), there has been a “paradigm shift” in the way that Pacific Island states engage with regional and world politics – a “new Pacific diplomacy”. The contributors represent an impressive range of Pacific leaders, senior diplomats, scholars, civil society leaders and other intellectuals, whose work is brought together by two of the region’s most seasoned diplomacy scholars, Greg Fry and Sandra Tarte…
