Security Cooperation in the Pacific Islands : Politics, Priorities, and Pathways of the Regional Security Patchwork / Joanne Wallis

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgement -- 1 Introduction: security cooperation in the Pacific Islands -- Part 1 Regional security cooperation -- 2 The role of the Pacific Islands Forum in regional security cooperation -- 3 The Boe Declaration: more than reconceptualising security -- 4 International organisations and security cooperation in the Pacific Islands -- 5 The Pacific Islands and global security challenges -- Part 2 Partner perspectives on security cooperation -- 6 The Australian perspective on security cooperation in the Pacific Islands -- 7 Security stakeholder and security partner: Aotearoa New Zealand's approach to security cooperation in the Pacific Islands -- 8 United States security cooperation among the Pacific Islands -- 9 The Japanese perspective on Pacific security cooperation: Japan's reemerging geopolitical turn -- 10 The French perspective on Pacific security cooperation -- 11 China's security interest in the Pacific region: Chinese and Pacific perceptions -- 12 Security cooperation in Oceania: An Oceanic perspective -- Part 3 Thematic approaches to security cooperation -- 13 Human security in pandemic times: the case of regional cooperation and local responses -- 14 Health security cooperation in the Pacific Islands -- 15 Rifts in resilience: Pacific humanitarian response and security -- 16 Climate 'securitising' by the Pacific -- 17 Security cooperation and fisheries in the Pacific -- 18 Border security cooperation to combat transnational crime in the Pacific Islands -- 19 Security cooperation to combat corruption in the Pacific: A regional approach -- 20 Conclusion -- Index.

Wallis, McNeill, Batley, Powles and the contributors examine the dynamics of Pacific Islands' security cooperation, analysing how it helps address regional security challenges amid the broader strategic competition between China and the United States that is increasingly playing out in the region.

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