Interviews
"Joy Schulz is a professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, focusing on US foreign policy and comparative politics in the Pacific region."
Oceania
The lack of voter turnout seems to plague countries around the world, but Australia provides an alternative reality.
Oceania
"[Small Island Developing States] were deeply impacted by the macroeconomic shock of the pandemic due to their overreliance on a narrow base of commodity exports and on a few service sectors, revealing a crippling lack of economic diversification."
China
"Amidst global discussion of the increasingly competitive dynamic emerging between China and the United States, Papua New Guinea (PNG) represents a potential battlefield."
China
"For a small country facing issues ranging from climate change to mass unemployment, Micronesia may have no desire to be the center of the Pacific’s newest geopolitical struggle."
Oceania
"These grievances are not without history, meaning, or validity, and they must be addressed."
Energy & Environment
Much like the symphonies that fill our concert halls, nature provides a medley of sounds that combine to create a rich and lively element of underwater life. In a surprising connection, bioacoustics are unlocking a way to establish community, a vital aspect of any thriving ecological environment.
Oceania
On July 10, 2019, the Australian government announced its intention to organize a national referendum to determine whether to recognize its indigenous people in the Constitution and provide them with a “formal representative role in the government.” Parliament has allowed itself three years to follow through on this promise, as
Agriculture
Once Upon a Time All Food Was Organic Although people have indirectly modified plants for thousands of years through artificial selection and domestication, the direct genetic modification of crops in the 1990s revolutionized agriculture. Before this, farmers around the world had been using herbicides to control unwanted plant growth. The