This book brings together insights into Pacific policing, conceptualising policing broadly as order maintenance involving the actions of multiple local, regional and international actors with sometimes competing and conflicting agendas. It examines how Pacific policing is shaped by changing state-society relations in different national contexts and ongoing processes of globalisation.

This collection offers insights of the international humanitarian system, considering what constitutes humanitarianism in Asia-Pacific, and how it shapes policy and practice in the region and globally. This book is based on the RSIS Conference on Asia and the Humanitarian World held in 2019 in Singapore. It is relevant to anyone with an interest in humanitarian assistance, disaster management, strategic studies and international relation in Asia-Pacific.

Less than five kilometres from Australia's most northern islands in the Torres Strait lies the southern coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The people living on the PNG side of the border along the South Fly coast live in abject poverty, with a near total absence of services and infrastructure. The disparity in income, housing and health outcomes when compared with their nearby neighbours and relatives in the Torres Strait Islands, is extreme.

Grappling with the Bomb is a history of Britain’s 1950s program to test the hydrogen bomb, code name Operation Grapple. In 1957–58, nine atmospheric nuclear tests were held at Malden Island and Christmas Island—today, part of the Pacific nation of Kiribati. Based on archival research and interviews Grappling with the Bomb presents i-Kiribati woman Sui Kiritome, British pacifist Harold Steele, businessman James Burns, Fijian sailor Paul Ah Poy, English volunteers Mary and Billie Burgess and many other witnesses to Britain’s nuclear folly.

This volume critically interrogates the relation between gender violence and human rights as Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and their communities and citizens engage with, appropriate, modify and at times resist human rights principles and their implications for gender violence

The book identifies structures, norms, practices and techniques that have either fuelled or moderated conflicts. As such, it is an essential read for students and scholars of international relations, peace and conflict studies and Asia Pacific studies.

Growing strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific means that the island states of the Pacific and the Indian Ocean are likely to become the battlegrounds for influence among the major powers. Australia and its partners need to better engage with the island states and work with them to address their maritime security challenges. This report examines the maritime security needs of Indo-Pacific island states within the context of growing great-power competition.