scholarly journals The role of the United States in the South Pacific at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries - maintaining the sphere of influence by providing security to microstates?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna SİEKİERA
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The United States ◽  
The South ◽  
Sphere Of Influence

Fighting for oil when there is no oil yet

Focaal ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (52) ◽  
pp. 39-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Behrends
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The United States ◽  
The South ◽  
Southern Sudan ◽  
Future Possibility ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
The United Nations

The area around the border of Sudan and Chad, where Darfur lies, has been an unimportant and unknown backwater throughout history. Today, however, Darfur is all over the international press. Everybody knows about the grim war there. There is no oil currently in production in Darfur. However, there is oil in the south of neighboring Chad and in Southern Sudan, and there might be oil in Darfur. This article considers a case of fighting for oil when there is no oil yet. It takes into account the role of local actors doing the fighting, that is, the army, rebels, and militias; national actors such as the Sudanese and Chadian governments; and international actors, such as multinational oil companies, the United States, China, and the United Nations. It explains how oil can have disintegrative consequences even when it is still only a rumor about a future possibility.

A Theologian Looks at Latin America

1958 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-430
Author(s):  
Gustave Weigel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
The South ◽  
World Power ◽  
International Power ◽  
The Way

One of the constant worries of the United States, since the role of a dominant world-power has been thrust on her, is the situation of Latin America. Relations with Canada require thought and preoccupation but they produce no deep concern. Canada and the United States understand each other and they form their policies in terms of friendly adjustment. Yet the same is not true when we consider the bloc of nations stretching to the south of the Rio Grande. They form two thirds of the geographic stretch of the western hemisphere, and they constitute a population equal to ours. The dependence on Latin America on the part of the United States in her capacity as an international power is evident. What is not evident is the way to make our friendship with our southern neighbors a more stable thing than the fragile arrangement which confronts us in the present.

Agreement on South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone

1996 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-63
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The United States ◽  
The South ◽  
Free Zone ◽  
The United Kingdom

The governments of the French Republic, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America will sign on Monday, March 25, 1996 the three additional protocols to the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, which is also known as the Treaty of Rarotonga.

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.

Israel Isolates the Coronavirus Virus Antibody in a “Significant Breakthrough”

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (Special) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ace Inhibitors ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The United States ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Virus Antibody ◽  
The South ◽  
Spanish Influenza ◽  
South Pacific Islands

Palliative treatments of COVID 19. Possible use of ACE inhibitors (anti-hypertension agents) in the combat with the Coronavirus [1- 3]. Time may still prove the greatest equality: The Spanish Influenza that broke out in the United States in 1918 seems to have died during the summer only to return to roaring with a more deadly strain in the fall and a third wave the following year. Eventually, he came to distant places like Alaska and the South Pacific islands, infecting a third of the world’s population.

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”.

South Pacific Commission

1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-482
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
The South ◽  
Work Program ◽  
The Pacific

From April 28 to May 7, 1952 the ninth session of the South Pacific Commission was held in Noumea, New Caledonia.1 The session, which was primarily concerned with administrative matters, was under the chairmanship of N. A. J. de Voogd (Netherlands). As a result of agreement by member governments at the eighth session to include Guam and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands within the scope of the Commission, at the ninth session it was agreed unanimously to extend Commission activities to embrace these territories. Assurances of cooperation in Commission activities were given on behalf of both territories by the Acting Senior Commissioner for the United States (Leebrick) and the Secretary of Guam (Herman). Special aspects of its work program were reviewed by the Commission. The printing of two project reports dealing with the area was authorized: one, on economic development of coral atolls covered a survey made for the Commission in 1951 in the Gilbert Islands and the other was concerned with the possibilities of expanding the cacao industry in the area.

The Tahitian Mission

2019 ◽  
pp. 103-112
Author(s):  
David O. McKay
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The United States ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
The South ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
The Pacific

McKay and Cannon’s unanticipated repose in the United States was bittersweet; the surprise of seeing loved ones momentarily alleviated their homesickness, yet both knew more than eight months would pass before they would reunite with their families. After returning to San Francisco, they resumed their journey to the South Pacific. They arrived in Papeete, French Polynesia, on April 9, 1921, for their tour of the Tahitian Mission, which included several islands across the Pacific. McKay and Cannon’s stay in Tahiti was brief; they spent only three days traveling through Papeete and Rarotonga before heading onward to New Zealand. The archipelago had a profound impact on McKay, who observed firsthand the challenges of missionary work, costly transportation, and the severity of the weather.

South Pacific Commission

1947 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 368-370
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The United States ◽  
The South ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Pacific Area

Experience gained from the functioning of the Caribbean Commission provided a working basis for the creation of the South Pacific Commission, since four of the six participating governments at the South Seas Conference were already members of the Caribbean Commission, a similar regional organization. Delegations representing the governments which administer non-self-governing territories in the South Pacific area (Australia, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States) met at the South Seas Conference at Canberra from January 28 to February 6, 1947, to prepare an agreement for the establishment of a regional commission which might aid in promoting the social and economic advancement of 2,000,000 peoples in the South Pacific. The Conference was called by the Australian and New Zealand governments in fulfilment of the Canberra Pact of January, 1944.

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