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De Gruyter Handbook of Climate Migration and Climate Mobility Justice

ANDREAS NEEF, NATASHA PAULI AND BUKOLA SALAMI  |  The accelerating pace of climate change is reshaping our world, particularly… Read More

Blue Security in the Indo-Pacific

 IAN HALL, TROY LEE-BROWN AND REBECCA STRATING  |  The Indo-Pacific is one of the most dynamic and contested regions… Read More

Resilience and challenges: A decade of insights from the Pacific Islands Export Survey

LUKE HOUGHTON | For the past decade, the Pacific Islands Export Survey, conducted biennially by Pacific Trade Invest (PTI) with support from the Pacific Islands… Read More

Empowering Pacific entrepreneurs: Building a resilient ecosystem for innovation

SHAWN HUNTER, SAMEER DESHPANDE, RON BEVACQUA , JEFF LIEW AND PETER MORGAN  | Small-scale enterprises play a pivotal role in the… Read More

Driving economic resilience: Pacific Trade Invest’s decade of progress

LUKE HOUGHTON | Download PDF Citation: Houghton, Luke, 2024, Driving economic resilience: Pacific Trade Investment’s decade of progress, Griffith Asia Institute,… Read More

Enhancing the ecosystem for entrepreneurship and innovation in the Pacific

SHAWN HUNTER, SAMEER DESHPANDE, RON BEVACQUA , JEFF LIEW AND PETER MORGAN  | Download PDF Citation: Hunter, Shawn, Deshpande, Sameer,… Read More

Pacific Outlook Bulletin | November

TESS NEWTON CAIN  |  All eyes on COP29 Pacific delegations are heading to Baku in Azerbaijan for COP29. The re-election of Donald Trump as… Read More

Pacific Outlook Bulletin | October

TESS NEWTON CAIN  |  Pacific work on the global stage At the UN General Assembly, the President of Nauru, David Adeang, spoke in favour… Read More

The Federalist Papers and Papua New Guinea: Lessons in democracy

SEAN JACOBS  |  The US Federalist Papers—published in 1787 and 1788—may seem a world away from the South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea… Read More

Scoring big: The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the power of sports diplomacy in the Pacific

SAKIUSA NABOU |      The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has been instrumental in developing sports as one of its foreign policy tools… Read More