Pacific Step-Up: Exploring Geopolitical Accountability for Aid in Solomon Islands

Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Social and Environmental Accountability Journal Pub Date : 2021-10-06 DOI:10.1080/0969160X.2021.1978304

Bridget Poiohia, Lee Moerman, Stephanie Perkiss

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ABSTRACT Pacific Island Countries (PICs) commonly rely on intergovernmental Official Development Aid (ODA) to assist with social and environmental challenges. Therefore, how national governments are accountable for these commitments is an important issue for donors and recipients. This study investigates the donor side of this relationship by exploring Australia’s ODA relationship with Solomon Islands through its recent Pacific Step-up programme. Given the geographic closeness and history between Australia and Solomon Islands, we adopt critical geopolitics as a framework to inform the analysis. We find that the two common metaphors, family and step-up, are evidence of Australia’s accountability relationship with Solomon Islands; while the concept of tug-of-war explains the background and rising geopolitical anxiety between two regional powers, Australia and China. This study extends our understanding of aid accountability within a novel intergovernmental environment and offers an alternative explanation rooted in a politics of power.

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太平洋升级:探讨所罗门群岛援助的地缘政治责任

太平洋岛国(PICs)通常依靠政府间官方发展援助(ODA)来应对社会和环境挑战。因此，各国政府如何对这些承诺负责是捐助国和受援国的一个重要问题。本研究通过最近的太平洋加强方案探讨澳大利亚与所罗门群岛的官方发展援助关系，调查了这一关系的捐助方面。考虑到澳大利亚和所罗门群岛之间的地理位置和历史，我们采用关键的地缘政治作为框架来为分析提供信息。我们发现两个常见的比喻，家庭和提升，是澳大利亚与所罗门群岛的问责关系的证据;而拔河的概念解释了澳大利亚和中国这两个地区大国之间的背景和日益加剧的地缘政治焦虑。这项研究扩展了我们在一个新的政府间环境中对援助问责制的理解，并提供了植根于权力政治的另一种解释。

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