President Trump’s return to the White House in 2025 signals an upheaval in global politics. ODI hosts, Emily and Matt, ask what this means for small island developing states, and how they might navigate these increasingly choppy waters. 

Guests:

• William Waqavakatoga
• Professor Joanne Wallis
• Professor Jack Corbett
• Professor W. Andy Knight
• Professor Xiaotong Zhang
• Ali Naseer Mohamed, Permanent Representative of Maldives to the United Nations

Resources:

• Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI)
• Sustaining Development in Small Islands: Climate Change, Geopolitical Security and the Permissive Liberal Order
• Geopolitical competition, bilateral aid, and the collective interests of Small Island Developing States
• Ordering the Islands? Pacific Responses to China's Strategic Narratives
• Power and Influence in the Pacific Islands Understanding Statecraftiness
• Small States, Mutual Respect and the Future of the Multilateral System
• Economic threats loom for Caribbean nations in Trump 2.0
• New Economic Statecraft: China, the US and EU
• China’s Modern Economic Statecraft: A Wealth-Power Dialectic
• Geopolitical Competition in the International System  

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