Oceania: dream islands or examples of new world disorder?

October 2005 The political scientist Charles Zorgbibe, in L’Année internationale, exclaimed, “who will ensure the survival of the micro-States of the Pacific?” (mainly situated in the south of the Tropic of Cancer, in the region of the world known as “Oceania”). Ten years later, the situation proved to be going against them. The inter-tropical Pacific Island suffered from serious problems to which the world seemed oblivious. This part of the Pacific is not the “new centre of the world”, quite..