Regional Politics in the Southwest Pacific: From Colonialism and Cold War to the Asia-Pacific Century

在亚太问题日益受到国际关注的大背景下，该项目旨在调查战后初期至今西南太平洋地区的区域政治，重点关注太平洋岛国之间的身份政治以及澳大利亚在该地区的作用。它的意义在于确定了由于殖民主义和冷战的遗留问题、美拉尼西亚/波利尼西亚的分裂以及新行动者的出现而产生的区域政治中的重要紧张局势。结果包括对区域进程的更深入理解，以及支撑这些进程的动机、利益、价值观和期望，从而为学术方法、政策制定和公共话语提供信息。

In the general context of increasing international attention to Asia-Pacific issues, the project aims to investigate regional politics in the Southwest Pacific from the early post-war period to the present with a focus on identity politics among Pacific Island states and Australia's role in the region. Its significance lies in the identification of important tensions in regional politics arising from the legacies of colonialism and the Cold War, the Melanesia/Polynesia divide and the advent of new actors. Outcomes include a deeper understanding of regional processes, and the motives, interests, values and expectations which underpin them, to inform scholarly approaches, policy formulation and public discourses.