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Cross Conditionality of Donor Finance is Paramount for Fiji

This is the opportune time for donor synergy to include cross conditionality on their "humanitarian" re-engagement to prescribe as a pre-condition to drawdown the restoration in full of the 1997 Constitution of the Democ…
The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation's Relevance?

After 20 years and an apparent lack of results, sceptics question the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation's relevance. But solutions to issues such as economic imbalances and climate change do not emerge just because…
While We Celebrated Christmas Military Alliances were Strengthened

Ok Folks just an update on a few International Agreements for security cooperation that have been entered into in the past week whilst we have been busy celebrating Christmas. Germany will supply 126 fighter planes to…
Emerging Powers Playing Musical Chairs with OBAMA

Recent preoccupation of foreign policy wonks in Washington has been on whether the pre-eminent geo-strategic status of the United States will be challenged by China, India and other emerging economies and by…
Obama Must Exact a Real Price from Fiji's Junta in 2010

The United States Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor issued one of those standard operating procedure report's a few months back stating that the Obama Administration's "top priority" concerning Fiji was to "en…
No Nation has Ever been Founded in Peace

“No Nation has ever been founded in peace, but only by the instincts of self preservation, which may take the form either of heroic virtue or crafty cunning” “When Nations are fighting for their very existence on this e…
Commonwealth must compel change in IMF WORLD BANK Policies

As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting is about to take place in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago's capital, there is not much hope among its member states that it will achieve anything more than declarations…
EU UN IMF WB APPOINTMENTS TRANSPARENT ?

Dithering is not necessarily a bad thing in international affairs. If President Obama is right to procrastinate over more troops for Afghanistan (as he is), you could equally argue that the European Union leaders a…
International Agreements 101

International agreements exhibit a wide range of variation. Many are negotiated as legally binding agreements, while others are expressly nonbinding. Some contain substantive obligations requiring deep, demanding poli…
EU THREATENS TOUGHER SANCTIONS FOR FIJI

Brussels (Agence Europe) - The Swedish Presidency, speaking on behalf of the European Union, has criticised the decision of the Fiji government to expel the Australian High Commissioner and New Zealand's Acting Head of M…