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May 2021 Vol 47 No 5
CONTENTS

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4 Editor’s note 17 Climate summits on the road to Glasgow
5 Opinion: Samoa 20 Ernest Gibson gives it his best shot
6 View from the West: COVID-19, the 24 MISA: Connected by the ocean and history

Western Front and stealing thunder 26 Managing leadership for Pacific regionalism
7 Ratu Mara’s Chiefly sacrifice 28 How two universities are responding to COVID
8 Briefs 30 Kina finds its sweet spot
10 Whispers 33 Oil exploration talks revived in Palau

12 Cover: Vaccine diplomacy 36 Books: Iliesa Samu Lala’s They Said
14 Samoa on tenterhooks 38 Pacific Makete: Urban Shack
16 Luve ni yali: Lost son of a seasonal worker 40 Movers and Shakers

Cover image: Albert Rolls

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