In 22 May 2023, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Papua New Guinea (PNG) Defence Minister Win Bakri Daki signed a defence and maritime cooperation agreement in Port Moresby. Blinken stepped in after US President Joe Biden’s last-minute cancellation. Had he attended, it would reportedly have been the first time a US president had visited a Pacific Island country other than US territories s ... (read more)
Jack Corbett
Jack Corbett is Professor and Head of the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. Statehood à la carte in the Caribbean and the Pacific: Secession, regionalism and postcolonial politics was published in 2023 by Oxford University Press.