Tarte, Sandra (2025) The role of the Pacific Islands Forum in Regional Security Cooperation. In: Security Cooperation in the Pacific Islands: Politics, Priorities, and Pathways of the Regional Security Patchwork. Routledge, London, pp. 17-29. ISBN 9781003613190
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This chapter provides an overview of the history, structure, and dynamics of the Pacific Island Forum’s role in security cooperation that provides the scaffolding on which the remainder of the collection builds. Sandra Tarte emphasises that events have frequently shaped the Forum’s ability to respond to security challenges, with the COVID-19 pandemic the most recent example. She highlights four roles that the Forum plays in promoting security cooperation. First, consensus-building and norm diffusion, through mobilising regional engagement on international challenges, with climate change a notable example. Second, coordinating and facilitating assistance from partners to build the region’s capacity to manage security challenges (for instance relating to cyber security). Third, strengthening regional capacity through coordinating information-sharing to counter security threats. Fourth, addressing national human and environmental security threats, as well as common regional security threats such unexploded ordinances, nuclear contamination, and criminal deportees.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JZ International relations |
| Divisions: | School of Law and Social Sciences (SoLaSS) |
| Depositing User: | Ms Shalni Sanjana |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Apr 2026 01:12 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Apr 2026 01:12 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/15338 |
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