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Framing the Islands : Power and Diplomatic Agency in Pacific Regionalism.

Since its origins in late eighteenth-century European thought, the idea of placing a regional frame around the Pacific islands has never been just an exercise in geographical mapping. This framing has always been a political exercise. Contending regional projects and visions have been part of a poli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fry, Greg
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Canberra : ANU Press, 2019.
Colección:Pacific series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Framing Oceania; 2. Rethinking the political meaning of Pacific regionalism; 3. The 'South Seas' in the imperial imagination; 4. Colonial regionalism; 5. The South Pacific experiment; 6. The decolonisation of regional governance; 7. The postcolonial regional polity; 8. Regional self-determination; 9. Negotiating regional security in the Cold War; 10. Negotiating Pacific island development in the post-independence era; 11. The neoliberal ascendancy and its critics; 12. Reframing regional security in the post-Cold War era
  • 13. The 'new' Pacific diplomacy and the transformation of regionalism14. Conclusion: Power and diplomatic agency in Pacific regionalism; Bibliography; Index