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ANZUS TREATY TO SECURITIZE SOUTH PACIFIC

THE trilateral Anzus Treaty binding Australia, New Zealand and the United States in a military alliance is all but dead - and has been since the mid-1980s. But a new initiative seems set to recast relations. Anz…
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…
IMF WORLD BANK DO NOT HAVE MORAL AUTHORITY TO LEND FIJI MONEY

“When a corrupt governmental regime borrows money in the name of the state, and then steals or squanders the proceeds, must the future citizens of that country repay the loan?The law says yes, but the moral instinct o…
Germany appeal to Security Council on U.N. Peacekeeping

As the UN prepares to mark its seventh International Day of Peace on Monday, one expert says the organization is relatively powerless to stop human rights violations by its own workers deployed on peacekeeping mis…
The Philosophy behind J.V. Bainimarama's Throne : A Theocracy

It is true that the “root cause” of our coups by a “tiny minority of ostensibly malefic persons” in Fiji was beyond my comprehension. A notable blogger has repeatedly clarified in this quest to seek an answer that “…
Enter the new International Super-Currency

Legions of pundits have argued that the dollar's status as an international currency has been damaged by the great credit crisis of 2007-9--and not a few have argued that the injury may prove fatal. The crisis certainly…
The Final Solution: A United “Cross-Conditionality” on Funding the Republic of Fiji

Apart from standard financial, macroeconomic and structural conditionality a further genre is long overdue in international funding programs and that is to compel respect for the ‘rule of law’ and ‘human rights’, includi…