Australia’s tricky track record at the Pacific Islands Forum

Given the importance of ‘listening’ in Australian diplomacy with its Pacific ‘family,’ one would expect Australian leaders to behave respectfully at the Pacific Islands Forum, but their actions this year showed that true listening involves not just attendance, but also sensitivity, responsiveness, and accountability.

The Pacific Islands Forum can learn from ASEAN

Pacific Islands Forum members could consider what ARF mechanisms might be usefully adapted to the Pacific context to ensure that Pacific regionalism is an effective buffer and bulwark in the face of strategic competition.

Keeping everyone in the Pacific tent

A last-minute agreement has avoided rupture in the Pacific Islands Forum, but as the agreement was negotiated both regional strengths and vulnerabilities were revealed.

Pacific Islands Forum: Finding meaning in a ‘typo’?

Recent turmoil in the Pacific Islands Forum has been complicated by the association’s nebulous treaty status.

The Pacific Islands Forum can survive this crisis too

The recent split among member states in the Pacific Island Forum is only the latest in a litany of crisis, and certainly does not herald the end of regional cooperation.