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Wallis, McNeill, Batley, Powles and the contributors examine the dynamics of Pacific Islands' security cooperation, analysing how it helps address regional security challenges amid the broader strategic competition between China and the United States that is increasingly playing out in the region.
List of contents
Foreword
1. Introduction: Security cooperation in the Pacific Islands
Part 1: Regional Security Cooperation 2. The role of the Pacific Islands Forum in regional security cooperation
3. The Boe Declaration: More than reconceptualising security
4. International organisations and security cooperation in the Pacific Islands
5. The Pacific Islands and global security challenges
Part 2: Partner Perspectives on Security Cooperation6. The Australian perspective on security cooperation in the Pacific Islands
7. Security stakeholder and security partner: Aotearoa New Zealand's approach to security cooperation in the Pacific Islands
8. United States security cooperation among the Pacific Islands
9. The Japanese perspective on Pacific security cooperation: Japan's re-emerging geopolitical turn
10. The French perspective on Pacific security cooperation
11. China's security interest in the Pacific region: Chinese and Pacific perceptions
12. Security cooperation in Oceania: An Oceanic perspective
Part 3: Thematic Approaches to Security Cooperation 13. Human security in pandemic times: The case of regional cooperation and local responses
14. Health security cooperation in the Pacific Islands
15. Rifts in resilience: Pacific humanitarian response and security
16. Climate 'securitising' by the Pacific
17. Security cooperation and fisheries in the Pacific
18. Border security cooperation to combat transnational crime in the Pacific Islands
19. Security cooperation to combat corruption in the Pacific: A regional approach
20. Conclusion
About the author
Joanne Wallis is Professor of International Security and Research Director of the Stretton Institute 'Security in the Pacific Islands' program at the University of Adelaide, and Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution.
Henrietta McNeill is Research Fellow in Pacific security in the Department of Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University.
James Batley is Distinguished Policy Fellow in the Department of Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University.
Anna Powles is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at Massey University.
