Voices from the margins: Pacific ambassadors and the geopolitics of marginality at the United Nations

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-12

  McNamara, Karen E ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capacity; Critical geopolitics; Pacific; Small island states; United Nations

Indexed keywords

DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS; GEOPOLITICS; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; UNITED NATIONS;

PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 63549131004     PISSN: 13607456     EISSN: 14678373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8373.2009.01376.x     Document Type: Article

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