scholarly journals Pacific Economic Monitor December 2021: Reopening and Rebuilding for a Resilient Recovery

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Fiscal Sustainability ◽  
Economic Management ◽  
The Pacific

This issue of the Pacific Economic Monitor explores how the region can reopen and rebuild. Besides safely resuming travel and protecting health, a resilient recovery will depend on promoting fiscal sustainability and strengthening economic management, including regional cooperation to revitalize tourism.

scholarly journals The ANZUS Treaty during the Cold War: A Reinterpretation of U.S. Diplomacy in the Southwest Pacific

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 109-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas K. Robb ◽  
David James Gill
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Coercive Diplomacy ◽  
Monetary System ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The U.S

This article explains the origins of the Australia–New Zealand–United States (ANZUS) Treaty by highlighting U.S. ambitions in the Pacific region after World War II. Three clarifications to the historiography merit attention. First, an alliance with Australia and New Zealand reflected the pursuit of U.S. interests rather than the skill of antipodean diplomacy. Despite initial reservations in Washington, geostrategic anxiety and economic ambition ultimately spurred cooperation. The U.S. government's eventual recourse to coercive diplomacy against the other ANZUS members, and the exclusion of Britain from the alliance, substantiate claims of self-interest. Second, the historiography neglects the economic rationale underlying the U.S. commitment to Pacific security. Regional cooperation ensured the revival of Japan, the avoidance of discriminatory trade policies, and the stability of the Bretton Woods monetary system. Third, scholars have unduly played down and misunderstood the concept of race. U.S. foreign policy elites invoked ideas about a “White Man's Club” in Asia to obscure the pursuit of U.S. interests in the region and to ensure British exclusion from the treaty.

scholarly journals Migration and Foreign Aid as Factors Restraining Regional Cooperation in the South Pacific

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Joanna Siekiera ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Ocean Basin ◽  
The South ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Permanent Migration ◽  
The 1960S

Cooperation in the South Pacific region is unique due to the characteristics of its participants. Following the period of decolonization (1962-1980), countries in Oceania have radically changed. Achieving independence gave those nations international legal personality, yet complete independence from their former colonial powers. The following consequence was gaining an opportunity to draft, adopt and execute own laws in national and foreign policy. PICT (Pacific island countries and territories) have been expanding connections, political and trade ones, within the region since the 1960s when permanent migration of islanders and intra-regional transactions began. Migrations along with foreign aid are considered as the distinctive characteristics of the Pacific Ocean basin. Since the 1980s, the regional integration in Oceania, through establishing regional groupings and increasing the regional trade agreements number, took on pace and scope. The MIRAB synthetic measure (migration, remittances, aid, bureaucracy) has been used in analyzing the Oceania developing microeconomies. Last but not least, migration and foreign aid have been retaining the region from a deeper and more effective stage of regionalism.

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence and Broadband Development through the Asia-Pacific Information Superhighway

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Atsuko Okuda ◽  
Siope Vakataki ‘Ofa
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Income Level ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Information Superhighway ◽  
Broadband Networks ◽  
The Pacific

This exploratory study aims to identify the main characteristics and relationships between artificial intelligence (AI) and broadband development in Asia and the Pacific. Broadband networks are the foundation and prerequisite for the development of AI. But what types of broadband networks would be conducive are not adequately discussed so far. Furthermore, in addition to broadband networks, other factors, such as income level, broadband quality, and investment, are expected to influence the uptake of AI in the region. The findings are synthesized into a set of policy recommendations at the end of the article, which highlights the need for regional cooperation through an initiative, such as the Asia-Pacific Information Superhighway (AP-IS). 

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF THE UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC IN PROMOTING REGIONAL COOPERATION IN PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-77
Author(s):  
E.N. Yakovleva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Unique Experience ◽  
Basic Content

The article is devoted to the activities of the UN ESCAP in terms of promoting the improvement of life of persons with disabilities in the Asia-Pacific region. In general, the problem of protecting and ensuring the rights of persons with disabilities is acutely on the agenda of most states of the world. But the urgency of this problem is not lost: people with disabilities face many violations of their rights in all spheres of society. The scientific novelty of this work is justified by the lack of research into the activities of the UN regional commissions in addressing pressing economic and social issues. Using comparative legal and formal legal methods, the work analyzes the unique experience of ESCAP in organizing three regional decades of disabled people; the main documents of the commission which provide carrying out of program actions are considered; the basic content of these documents is revealed; their features are allocated. The study concludes that ESCAP has made a significant contribution to promoting international standards on the rights of persons with disabilities in national policies of States in the region.

scholarly journals Overseas Medical Referral: the health system challenges for Pacific Island Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Boudville ◽  
Wayne Irava ◽  
Silina Motofaga ◽  
Katherine Gilbert ◽  
Peter Annear
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Routine Data ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island Countries ◽  
Medical Referral

The delivery of specialised clinical services in the small Island nations of the Pacific region is an increasing challenge in the context of a rising burden of non-communicable diseases. Resources are limited and case-loads too low to support local specialists. This article focuses on the common practice of Overseas Medical Referral (OMR), which is an increasing challenge in the region. We collected interview and secondary data across 16 Pacific Island Countries. We found that OMR policies are often weak or incomplete, systems inadequate and reforms needed. Integrating OMR fully into national health referral systems and national strategic planning and prioritisation processes is needed. There is an additional need for collection of routine data on OMR service providers in the recipient countries and the outcomes of clinical care. With these reforms, a move towards increased regional cooperation and some form of strategic purchasing is possible.

scholarly journals Neighbourliness and Australia’s Contribution to Regional Migration Strategies for Climate Displacement in the Pacific

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Bridget Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Regional Climate Change ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Regional Migration ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Migration Strategies ◽  
The Creation

<em>The prospect of widespread displacement in the Pacific as a result of climate change is becoming increasingly likely and it is possible that many will eventually need to relocate to other countries. Regional migration strategies not only offer the potential to minimise the harms of relocation, while acknowledging existing relationships of friendship and regional cooperation. This article examines the use of the language of ‘neighbourliness’ in Australia’s regional climate change strategies and argues that, while it expresses friendship, such language can also be employed to avoid the creation of stronger obligations. The article considers the international doctrine of good neighbourliness and concludes that, while international legal obligations may not yet exist, Australia should nonetheless begin planning for regional migration within the Pacific to allow people to migrate with dignity.</em>

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