Pacific Futures

The book may reflect the priorities of its supporters (the Pacific Cooperation Council of New Zealand and the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and some readers may not expect the book to survey a full range of issues or types of perspectives on the future. Part Three, "A Developing Pacific Community," contains four chapters that consider Pacific Island regionalism (Herr); the need for flexible bilateral, multilateral, subregional, and regional responses to the growing Asianization of the region (Crocombe); three visions of future architecture of regional international relations (Fry); and the generational change of focus among politicians from sovereign nationhood toward greater regional collective action (Aqorau). The final section, "Finding Pacific Solutions: Some Pacific Voices from Across the Generations," incorporates six short papers on cooperation (Morauta); the problem of relying too heavily on imported solutions (Slade); the significance of churches in helping to shape socio-political visions (Bryce); the increasing role of Micronesia in regional identity (Underwood); the growing relevance of human rights (Lee); and the crucial importance of Pacific people developing a vision of the period from 2025 to 2055 in order to work toward achieving their goals (Aqorau).