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The United Nations and the Pacific Islands

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Authors:
  1. Graham Hassall

    1. School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

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  • Examines the relationship between the United Nations Organization and the small states of the Pacific islands
  • Provide a profound context to Pacific-UN engagement
  • Includes contributions to comparative literature on small states in the age of globalization

Part of the book series: United Nations University Series on Regionalism (UNSR, volume 24)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xlii
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  2. Introduction: The Pacific Islands Region and the United Nations

    • Graham Hassall
    Pages 1-19

  3. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-22
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    2. Self-Determination

      • Graham Hassall
      Pages 23-55

    3. National Development Planning , Implementation, and Assessment

      • Graham Hassall
      Pages 57-69

    4. Regional Development and the UN

      • Graham Hassall
      Pages 71-97

    5. UN Offices in the Pacific

      • Graham Hassall
      Pages 99-123

    6. Governance and Pacific Islands Policy Networks

      • Graham Hassall
      Pages 125-164

  4. Pacific Islands Engagement in the UN

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. Membership and Participation in the Major Organs

      • Graham Hassall
      Pages 167-203

    3. Regional Peace and Security

      • Graham Hassall
      Pages 205-221

  5. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-224
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    2. Global Policy Networks and Global Summitry

      • Graham Hassall
      Pages 225-247

    3. Global Development Plans

      • Graham Hassall
      Pages 249-265

    4. The Emergence of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Development Discourse

      • Graham Hassall
      Pages 267-274

    5. Small States as Good States, Smart States, in the Global Era

      • Graham Hassall
      Pages 275-283

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 285-306
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About this book

This book critically examines the relationship between the United Nations Organization and the small states of the Pacific islands. It provides an in-depth coverage of the United Nations, coupled with how Pacific Small Island Developing States interact. It covers three themes, the first one being the position of the UN on the Pacific Islands, which examines the role of the many UN organs, agencies and programs in strengthening individual countries and the region as a whole. It examines the manner in which the UN’s activities have benefited Pacific nations, territories and peoples. The second theme deals with the Pacific states in the UN, and examines the participation of Pacific nations and territories in the UN’s various organs, agencies, and programmes. It analyses the contribution they have made to the effectiveness of the organization, as distinct from the benefits they have sought to gain from it. The third and last theme deals with small states in global public policy, taking a broader look at how small states are faring within the UN system in the age of global discourse on shared public goods/public policy concerns.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Graham Hassall

About the author

Prof. Graham Hassall has held teaching and visiting appointments traversing the fields of history, comparative constitutional law, governance, public policy, public administration, and global studies, at the University of Melbourne, the University of Papua New Guinea, Nagoya University in Japan, Landegg Academy in Switzerland, the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He is a founding member of the New Zealand Centre for Global Studies, and a life-member of the United Nations Association of New Zealand, having served as National President 2012-2016. He was Academic Director of Papua New Guinea’s Foreign Service Training Programme 2014-17. He has undertaken consultancies for the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, UNDESA, UNDP, Commonwealth Local Government Forum, Global Integrity, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the Papua New Guinea Department of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology; and has served on editorial and advisory boards including the New Zealand Association for Comparative Law; the Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific; the Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, and the New Zealand Council for International Development.

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