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Oceania as Geostrategic Chessboard

... its colonial policymakers in comparison to the island’s location as a staging ground for geopolitical adventures. Unfortunately, this has been the recurring fate of almost all of the island-nations of the Pacific for the past five hundred years. Oceania occupies nearly 25% of the surface of the globe, but it is also the least populated region—with few than 45 million inhabitants—and one of the poorest in resources. As a result, for more than 400 years the Pacific Islands have been ...