Islands Business Articles

Articles written by Kaliopate Tavola, published by Islands Business magazine from 2018-2023, shared here with permission.

2018 / 2019

Nov/Dec 2018
Addressing Increasing Inequality
Jan 2019
Forum in Limbo?
Feb 2019
Advancing Regional Integration
Mar 2019
Nakao’s Whirlwind Visit a Timely Reminder
Apr/May 2019
Aligning to Blue Pacific: Pacific Reset Steps Up
Jun 2019
United States of the Pacific
Jul 2019
WHY PHARMA PLUS MATTERS TO THE PACIFIC
Aug 2019
‘ENDURING COLONIZATION’ RAISES VEXATIOUS QUESTIONS FOR PIF/PIFS
Sep / Oct 2019
DEATH OF PACIFIC REGIONALISM?
Dec 2019
2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent: A Sea Change?

2020

Jan 2020
PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM IDENTITY MAY NEED RE-FOCUSING
Feb 2020
IT IS BACK TO THE DRAWING-BOARD FOR PIF AFTER THE SETBACK OF COP25
Mar 2020
KAINAKI II ‘CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS’ NEEDS ‘OUTSIDE THE BOX’ SOLUTION
Apr 2020
FIGURING OUT PIF’S SUPPORT FOR THE MULTILATERAL TRADING SYSTEM (MTS)
May 2020
PICTA – PICTURE OF INDIFFERENCE
Jun 2020
Deliving into PICTA
Jul 2020
Re-Negotiated PACER Plus for Post-Covid-19 Pacific Regionalism
Aug 2020
What is to become of USP?
Sep 2020
Fiji Making Amends in Pacific Regionalism
Oct 2020
NIEO: Learn from History
Dec 2020
Reimagining Pacific Regionalism

2021

Jan 2021
Derogation of State Power to the Region Not an Option
Feb 2021
Boosting the Pacific Aid for Trade Strategy (PAfTS 2020-2025)
Mar 2021
What is to Become of Pacific Regionalism?
Apr 2021
The Low-down on USP
May 2021
Managing Leadership for Pacific Regionalism
Jun 2021
EDF can fast-track PICTA
Jul 2021
Inclusivity is Expedient for PACER Plus
Aug 2021
IAEA: What about Risk Management?
Sep 2021
Changing Prescription for Regional Leadership
Oct 2021
Framing a ‘New Pacific Consciousness’
Nov 2021
COP26 at the Micro Level
Dec 2021
Post-COP26 at the Micro Level

2022

Jan 2022
Pacific Island Countries (PICs) in the wake as Australia Makes Waves: But there are Better Options.
Feb 2022
A New Pacific Consciousness: Pushing the Envelope
Mar 2022
Tongan Volcanic Eruptions: Prompting Resilience
Apr 2022
Indo-Pacific Strategy of the United States: Too Anodyne to be Utilitarian
May-Jun 2022
Making Sense of Multi-Layered Security Frameworks
Jul 2022
PICTA in the Slow Lane
Aug 2022
Putting the Case Forward for Pacific Integration
Sep 2022
Pacific Regionalism and Astrology: Alignment Defies Logic

Oct 2022

Blandness debilitates Regionalism
Nov 2022
Declaration on U.S.-Pacific Partnership Abrogates Established Order
Dec 2022
Republic 0f Korea – Pacific Islands Relations Step-Up

2023

Jan 2023
Rules-based Order: Whose Order?
Feb 2023
Probing Political Analysis Needed for 2050 Strategy
Mar 2023
2050 Strategy is Essentially Political
Apr 2023
Strengthening Pacific Regionalism for Robust Globalism
May 2023
Pacific Regionalism: To Hell with Drowning
Jun 2023
FIPIC Reaffirms Silver Lining
Date Unknown
Geostrategic Alignment Nightmare
Date Unknown
Strategic Manipulation: Was it a Faux Pas?