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Oceania & Pacific
Economics, maritime security, resources, climate and regional strategy across Oceania and the Pacific.
5 published articles
Overview
Oceania and the Pacific bring together Australia, New Zealand and island states and territories within a strategically important maritime space. This section examines national trajectories, alliances, resources, climate vulnerabilities and the competing influences shaping the region.
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Rio Tinto: Australia Reshapes Its Mining Power
On the Cape York Peninsula, in the far north of Queensland, Australia, the future of one of the world's major bauxite-producing regions is taking shape just a few kilometres from existing mining operations. As ageing deposits approach the end of their productive lives, Rio Tinto
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Oceania & PacificTuvalu: Can a State Survive the Disappearance of Its Territory?
In Funafuti, the capital of Tuvalu, the boundary between land and ocean has never seemed more uncertain. On this Pacific atoll, homes, roads, government buildings and the airport occupy such a narrow strip of land that the sea is never far away, even when it remains out of sight.
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Oceania & PacificNew Caledonia: Nickel and Sovereignty
In Nouméa, the smokestacks of the Doniambo metallurgical plant have dominated the industrial landscape for generations, telling a story that is inseparable from New Caledonia's history. Nickel has shaped the territory's infrastructure, trade relations, social structures, and political ambitions.
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Oceania & PacificPacific: The Ocean Becomes a Strategic Space
On a political map of the world, the Pacific still looks like an immense blue void.
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Oceania & PacificAustralia: Between Asia and the West
Australia occupies a singular position in the international system. Geographically, it belongs fully to the Indo-Pacific. Historically, institutionally and strategically, it remains deeply connected to the Western world. Economically, meanwhile, it depends heavily on trade with A