Samoa's Crisis
July/August 2021
Volume 46
Number 4
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Samoa’s 2021 election: the perfect storm for a crisis
Iati Iati reflects on the problems Samoa has been experiencing in forming a new government.
Meeting the Covid challenge
Mark Brown suggests the need for enduring relationships and transformative partnerships to build a better future for the Cook Islands.
Honey pot — or not?
Patricia Sexton explores the link between trans-national crime in the Pacific and crypto-currency.
Georgia: self-determination of whom?
Nino Kemoklidze discusses the question of the ‘indivisibility’ of her country in relation to the secession of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The battle for 6G has already started
Marçal Sanmartí comments on the incipient struggle for supremacy in his next round of the digital technology development competition.
Navigating global challenges
Laura Clarke outlines how the United Kingdom is dealing with threats to its security and way of life in the decade ahead.
BOOKS
Nick Bridge: The Boat That Brought Me: The lively memoir of a diplomat, husband and self-confessed cricket tragic (W. David McIntyre)
John Crawford and Matthew Buck: Phenomenal and Wicked: Attrition and Reinforcement in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli (Peter Stanley)
Malcolm Cook and Daljit Singh (eds): Southeast Asian Affairs 2020 (Catherine Churchman)
INSTITUTE NOTES
OBITUARY
Merwyn Norrish CNZM (Ian McGibbon)
Samoa’s 2021 election: the perfect storm for a crisis
Iati Iati reflects on the problems Samoa has been experiencing in forming a new government.
Meeting the Covid challenge
Mark Brown suggests the need for enduring relationships and transformative partnerships to build a better future for the Cook Islands.
Honey pot — or not?
Patricia Sexton explores the link between trans-national crime in the Pacific and crypto-currency.
Georgia: self-determination of whom?
Nino Kemoklidze discusses the question of the ‘indivisibility’ of her country in relation to the secession of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The battle for 6G has already started
Marçal Sanmartí comments on the incipient struggle for supremacy in his next round of the digital technology development competition.
Navigating global challenges
Laura Clarke outlines how the United Kingdom is dealing with threats to its security and way of life in the decade ahead.
BOOKS
Nick Bridge: The Boat That Brought Me: The lively memoir of a diplomat, husband and self-confessed cricket tragic (W. David McIntyre)
John Crawford and Matthew Buck: Phenomenal and Wicked: Attrition and Reinforcement in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli (Peter Stanley)
Malcolm Cook and Daljit Singh (eds): Southeast Asian Affairs 2020 (Catherine Churchman)
INSTITUTE NOTES
OBITUARY
Merwyn Norrish CNZM (Ian McGibbon)
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