Maxine Burkett (Hawaii): In Search of Refuge: Pacific Islands, Climate-Induced Migration, and the Legal Frontier. From the International Journal of Bahamian Studies, Lisa Benjamin (UWI): Climate Change and Caribbean Small Island States: The State of Play. From Antrocom Online Journal of Anthropology, Kerry Bolton on the enigma of the Ngati Hotu. In Macau, a succession saga fit for a casino king. A review of Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire by Nicholas Thomas. Atlas Obscura visits Rockall, the British Empire's last territorial expansion. Why do the world's fattest people live on islands? The Lost Decade: Has Fiji been lost for the past 10 years? From Open Democracy, meet the world’s smallest democratic government. A South Pacific island, under the microscope: Mo‘orea becomes a biodiversity lab as researchers catalogue the DNA of its species. Testing the limits of where humans can live: On an isolated segment of islands in the Pacific Ring of Fire, residents endure volcanoes, tsunamis, dense fog, steep cliffs and long and chilly winters — sounds homey, huh? Joseph Stiglitz on the Mauritius miracle. Caribbean Hangover: Turks and Caicos was poised to become the Monte Carlo of the Caribbean — so how did it end up a tropical hell? Novelist T.C Boyle’s When the Killing’s Done uses California’s Channel Islands to delve into the thorny effort to restore lost habitats, a theme and a locale familiar to our readers. Some men would like to be islands: The hows and whys of seasteading. Mustique Island, in the country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, rarely makes the news — unless one counts celebrity gossip sheets. From Paris Review, Sam Stephenson writes to managing editor Nicole Rudick from the island of Guam. Caribbean Maritime Disputes: When is an island not an island? An article on the little-noticed dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles. It seems worthwhile to map the potential geopolitical division of the Caribbean entailed by the existence of the ALBA alliance and that of its nemesis, NATO (and more).
