Sean Jacobs
Sean Jacobs
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Cooperation and capabilities: Pacific-led regionalism in the age of great power competition | Part 2
The second in a two-part series for the Griffith Asia Insights blog.
Continue reading→Shared values: Pacific-led regionalism in the age of great power competition | Part 1
The first in a two-part series for the Griffith Asia Insights blog.
Continue reading→Bigger moves, bigger expectations: Biden’s US-Pacific Island Forum Summit
A short summary on the second annual US-Pacific Islands Forum – an initiative I suggested over two years ago – that is critical to the political momentum behind US-Pacific links.
Continue reading→ABC Radio National: Israel and PNG’s surprising relationship
Here I share some thoughts on PNG’s recent decision to open an Embassy in Jerusalem and becoming only five nations to do so.
Continue reading→Why did Papua New Guinea move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem – from economics to faith
I explain PNG’s embassy move to Jerusalem here.
Continue reading→What to do about crime? Papua New Guinea at 48
A short piece of mine on PNG and turning 48 on 16 September, 2023.
Continue reading→Talking Neville Bonner with ABC’s Rebecca Levingston
Discussing Neville Bonner – our first Indigenous Parliamentarian – in front of the Neville Bonner bridge. https://www.seanjacobs.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/RL-SEAN-JACOBS-NEVILLE-AIR.mp3
Continue reading→I Nogat Inap Polis Man na Meri: A police shortage in Papua New Guinea
In this paper for Griffith University’s Asia Institute, I explore the implications of Papua New Guinea’s long-known police shortage and provide some practical recommendations on reversing this trend through political support.
Continue reading→Vale Ambassador C. Steven McGann
As world and US geopolitical attention shifts to the Pacific islands, it’s clear that Pacific thinkers will be increasingly important – people who understand not only Washington DC but the rhythms of 15 genuinely unique Pacific island nations, covering 300,000 square miles. The late US Ambassador to the Pacific, Steven McGann, was one of these people, serving as US Ambassador to Fiji from 2008 to 2011 – a representation that includes Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu. It’s mildly ironic – with the distance of time – that McGann’s 2008 Pacific appointment by George W. Bush emerged when US and world […]
Continue reading→ABC Radio National: Pacific update – New and old foreign players
Some thoughts on what is likely one of the most consequential times in recent South Pacific history. Here I join Tess Newton Cain and the ABC’s Philip Adams on Late Night Live.
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