HE Mr Charles W Lepani, Higher Commissioner of Papua New Guinea to Australia, will launch the book and Ambassador James Batley (retd) will MC the event.
The New Pacific Diplomacy
As the preliminary event to the 2016 International Forum on Diplomatic Training, join us for the launch of Greg Fry and Sandra Tarte’s edited publication, The New Pacific Diplomacy.
Since 2009 there has been a fundamental shift in the way that the Pacific Island states engage with regional and world politics. The region has experienced, what Kiribati President Anote Tong has aptly called a ‘paradigm shift’ in ideas about how Pacific diplomacy should be organised, and on what principles it should operate. Many leaders have called for a heightened Pacific voice in global affairs and a new commitment to establishing Pacific Island control of this diplomatic process.
This change in thinking has been expressed in the establishment of new channels and arenas for Pacific diplomacy at the regional and global levels and new ways of connecting the two levels through the active use of intermediate diplomatic associations.
The New Pacific Diplomacy brings together a range of analyses and perspectives on these dramatic new developments in Pacific diplomacy at sub-regional, regional and global levels and, in the key sectors of global negotiation for Pacific states - fisheries, climate change, decolonisation, and trade.