scholarly journals South Pacific Commission

1963 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 508-509 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Pacific ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Samoa ◽  
Pacific Islanders ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The South ◽  
Agricultural Produce ◽  
Marketing Efficiency ◽  
Changing Role

The fifth South Pacific Conference was held at Utulei village, near Pago Pago, American Samoa, on July 18–27, 1962, under the chairmanship of Mr. Kowles A. Ryerson, Senior Commissioner for the United States on the South Pacific Commission. Topics discussed by the standing committees and in the preliminary sessions of the Conference mainly related to economic and social development and health. Subjects included methods of training Pacific islanders in business methods and practices ways of improving the quality and marketing of agricultural produce and of developing marketing efficiency, the changing role of women in the region, the importance of organized adult eduction schemes, and ways of obtaining a reasonable balance between social advancement and economic development in the South Pacific region. Delegates also reviewed the work of the South Pacific Commission since the last Conference was held in 1959.

scholarly journals Forget China: No Shark Trade in Tonga. Yeah Right

Te Kaharoa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teena Brown Pulu
Keyword(s):  
South Pacific ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pacific Islanders ◽  
First Century ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The South ◽  
Debt Stress ◽  
The Government ◽  
Regional Engagement

In the South Pacific winter of 2013, Michael Brassington reported from Tonga that “China is now the South Pacific’s most valued VIP.”  The Australian journalist was interviewing Pesi Fonua, longstanding Tongan publisher who commented: “They are definitely calling the shots.  Whatever they want they can negotiate or take it.”  Referring to China, he ranked this regional power as a twenty first century precursor for South Seas debt, diplomacy, and indebtedness. By Fonua’s description China was the debt stress killer.  In 2014, Tonga would start repaying Chinese soft loans worth 40% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) spent on buildings, wharfs, bridges, roads.  Ordinary people in this small island developing state were worried the government might default on loan payments.  Then what would happen?  Would China own Tonga?  What have Pakeha New Zealanders’ perceptions of Pacific Islanders got to do with any of this?  Reconfiguring South Pacific relations with China as a contending power sparked off anxiety for the United States, Australian, and New Zealand governments.  The question was how did political unease shape strategies to control the region?  For Tonga’s national affliction of debt distress, did New Zealand’s regional engagement consider how an age old attitude towards Pacific Islanders weighed down this country’s excess baggage carried over from the 19th and 20th centuries, nudging them closer to China?

South Pacific Commission

1955 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-193
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Research Council ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The South ◽  
Technical Review

Twelfth SessionThe South Pacific Commission held its twelfth session at Anse Vata, Noumea, from October 12 to 29, 1953. The Senior Commissioner for the United States, Dr. F. M. Keesing, was chairman until October 24, when Dean K. A. Ryerson (Commissioner for the United States) took his place. The Commission, in deciding to consider the recommendations contained in the report of the fifth session of the Research Council, stated that it regarded the report of the fifth session to be a “model technical review, both in form and content, of the needs and possibilities for welfare and development in the South Pacific region”.

Inter-Institute Scientific Conference “The Countries of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific Region between Beijing and Washington"

2021 ◽  
pp. 355-381
Author(s):  
Ekaterina M. Astafieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Scientific Conference ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The South ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Online Format

The article provides an overview of the reports of the Scientific Inter-Institute Conference “The Countries of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific Region between Beijing and Washington”, which took place on May 17, 2021 in the online format. Scientists, as well as postgraduates students from various academic, research and educational institutions took part in the conference, organized by the Center for Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies of the IOS RAS. The topics of the reports covered a wide range of issues, starting from the global and regional levels and ending with the problems of some Southeast Asia and the South Pacific region countries interaction with China and the United States.

scholarly journals South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty of Rarotonga As The Response of South Asia Pacific Region on Nuclear Weapon Test

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hardi Alunaza
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nuclear Weapon ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
The South ◽  
The World

In the 21st century South Asia Pacific region will have great attention from the world. Geographical, social, economic and political in the South Pacific region influence on how the leaders of island nations take a stand on global issues, especially the issues that threaten their existence as sovereign states. This paper tries to explain how the efforts made by the leaders in the South Pacific is more focused on issues of non-traditional security, especially the efforts to minimize the impact caused by nuclear radiation, as a result of nuclear weapon test conducted by countries like the United States and France. With the concept of Balance of Power, this paper attempts to review on how the small countries in the South Pacific region established alliances as a form of rejection of nuclear weapon testing in the South Pacific as well as on how effective their efforts to build the South Pacific region as one of the nuclear free zones in the world.The rejection of the South Pacific community against all forms of nuclear testing mainly carried out by the United States, British and also France is not as a kind of effort which is further than the balance of power. However, it is more closely referred as a political means to demonstrate their existence to the world, that they are parts of the world's population who have right that deserves to be rewarded and aligned with the rest of the world. Principally, there are three effects due to radiation which can directly affect to the human body: 1). The cells will die, 2). the multiplication of the cells that can eventually lead to cancer cells, and 3). The damage can occur in the egg or testis which will trigger the process of deformed babies in the womb.

Literary Histories

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva-Marie Kröller
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Literary History ◽  
English Language ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
Cultural Elite ◽  
Historical Methodology ◽  
Literary Histories

This chapter discusses national literary histories in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific and summarises the book's main findings regarding the construction and revision of narratives of national identity since 1950. In colonial and postcolonial cultures, literary history is often based on a paradox that says much about their evolving sense of collective identity, but perhaps even more about the strains within it. The chapter considers the complications typical of postcolonial literary history by focusing on the conflict between collective celebration and its refutation. It examines three issues relating to the histories of English-language fiction in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific: problems of chronology and beginnings, with a special emphasis on Indigenous peoples; the role of the cultural elite and the history wars in the Australian context; and the influence of postcolonial networks on historical methodology.

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