Chapters on Guam, CNMI in new book on the Pacific

A new book about the politics of the Pacific includes chapters about Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas.

The book also includes chapters about other nations and territories linked in one way or another with the United States.

Pacific Ways, just published, contains a chapter about Guam’s government, politics and elections, as well as its still unresolved political status, written by Kelly G. Marsh and Tyrone J. Taitano.

Another chapter in the book is about politics and government in American Samoa, highlighting the territory’s position as both American and Samoan. The book also includes chapters on the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau.

The new book about politics in the Pacific provides insights about 27 Pacific Island countries and territories.

Edited by Victoria University of Wellington’s Professor Stephen Levine, the book includes contributions from Pacific scholars from across the region.

The book covers all regions—Polynesia, Melanesia. and Micronesia—and all countries, irrespective of their size or political status. The contents mirror the diversity of the Pacific, with chapters about an array of island nations whose politics receive relatively little media or scholarly attention.

Originally published in 2009, this second edition of Pacific Ways has been written by an almost entirely new team of authors, offering their own perspectives on the Pacific’s problems and prospects. Pacific Ways includes a specially commissioned color map of the entire Pacific Islands region, providing a visual reference point for each of the states and territories.

The overall aim of this new edition of Pacific Ways is to provide a clear, thoughtful, up-to-date account of the politics, elections, political parties and systems of government in every Pacific Island nation and territory.

Contributors: Peter Clegg, Jack Corbett, Jon Fraenkel, Lorenz Gonschor, Cheryl Hunter, Iati Iati, Keli Kalolo, David Kupferman, Marc Lanteigne, Michael Leach, Hapakuke Pierre Leleivai, Stephen Levine, Kelly Marsh, Nic Maclellan, Gordon Nanau, Vergil Narakobi, Robert Norton, Glenn Petersen, Gregory B. Poling, Zag Puas, Max Quanchi, Frank Quimby, Steven Ratuva, Nigel S. Roberts, J. Robert Shaffer, Tyrone Taitano, Salote Talagi, Takuia Uakeia, Wouter Veenendaal, Phillipa Webb, Forrest Wade Young

Pacific Ways: Government and Politics in the Pacific Islands is available in bookshops and can also be ordered from: http://vup.victoria.ac.nz/

For further information, please contact Kirsten McDougall at: Kirsten.McDougall@vuw.ac.nz. See also www.vup.victoria.ac.nz. (PR)