Faculty
Terence Wesley-Smith
Title
Professor
Nationality
USA
Institute
University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Expertise in
Pacific Islands Studies
Experience

Major Achievements

(Publications)

Work in progress

(2019). With K. Teaiwa and A. Henderson. Sweat and Saltwater: Selected Works of Teresia K Teaiwa.

Submitted for publication to University of Hawaii Press.

(2019). With G. Smith. The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands. Edited collection to be

submitted to the Australian National University Press.

Selected publications

2016. Reordering Oceania: China's Rise, Geopolitics, and Security in the Pacific Islands.

In Michael Powles (ed.) China and the Pacific: The View from Oceania. Wellington: Victoria University Press. 98-110.

2016. "Rethinking Pacific Studies Twenty Years On." The Contemporary Pacific 18:1 (2016). 153-169

2015. China in the Pacific Islands: Impacts and Implications. In Carla P. Freeman (ed.) Handbook on China and

Developing Countries. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. 479-495

2013. China’s Rise in Oceania: Issues and Perspectives.” Pacific Affairs 86(2): 351-372

2013. “Changing Patterns of Power,” in Moshe Rapaport (ed.) The Pacific Islands: Environment and

Society, Revised Edition. University of Hawai`i Press: 147-158

2010. China in Oceania: Towards a New Regional Order? Edited volume with Edgar Porter. London and

New York: Volume 1, Foundations of Asia Pacific Studies Series, Berghahn Books.

2010. Remaking Area Studies: Teaching and Learning Across Asia and the Pacific. Edited volume

with Jon Goss. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press.

2008. “Altered States: Regional Intervention and the Politics of State Failure in Oceania,” in Greg Fry and

Tarcisius Kabutaulaka (eds.) Intervention and State-Building in the Pacific: The Political Legitimacy of 'Co-operative

Intervention’. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

2007 “Self-Determination in Oceania.” Race and Class 48(3): 29-46

2007 China in Oceania: New Forces in Pacific Politics. Pacific Islands Policy #2. Honolulu: East-West Center.

2007 “The Limits of Self-Determination in Oceania,” Social and Economic Studies 56(1&2) (Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies): 182-208.

2006. “There Goes the Neighborhood: The Politics of Failed States and Regional Intervention in the Pacific.” In Redefining the Pacific? Regionalism, Past, Present and Future, Jenny Bryant-Tokalau and Ian Frazer (eds.), Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 121-126.

2004. “The Ocean in Me.” In Brij V. Lal (ed.) Pacific Places, Pacific History. Honolulu: University of

Hawai`i Press. 70-86.

2003. With V. Hereniko. Back to the Future: Decolonizing Pacific Studies. The Contemporary

Pacific 15(1), Spring 2003. Edited collection of papers from the Twenty-Fifth Annual Pacific Islands

Studies Conference, Pacific Studies 2000: Honoring the Past, Creating the Future.

2001. With G. Finin “Coups, Conflicts, and Crises: The New Pacific Way?” Race and Class 42(2): 1-16.