Table of Contents
Preface (Dariusz Zdziech) 7
Dear Readers (Paul Wojciechowski) 9
Tēnā koutou katoa, greetings to you all (Mary Thurston) . 11
Zuzanna Jakubowska-Vorbrich, Spanish Expedition to Easter Island, 1770,and Its Interpretation: An Example of Cultural Misunderstanding? 13
Jan Lencznarowicz, The ‘Pacific Solution’ in Australian Refugee Policy . 37
Mieczysław Sprengel, Howard Government Activist Rolein the South Pacific 51
Jerzy Grębosz, On the Origin of a Diversity of the Cultural Anthropologyof the West Oceania 59
Krzysztof Konstanty Vorbrich, Bass Strait Discovery and Its Consequences for the British Empire and Oceania: Little Known Aspects of Flinders’s and Bas’s Journals and Maps 65
Cecylia Małgorzata Dziewięcka, ‘Atenisi Institute for Critical Educationin the South Pacific The Kingdom of Tonga 95
Piotr Grzybowski, Selected Problems of Wastes Treatment in Tuvalu . 105
Joanna Siekiera, RIMPAC – International Implications of the World’sLargest Maritime Exercise . 109
Pedro Henrique Melchior Nunes da Horta, A Worldwide Nuclear Disarmament Case: The Leading Role of the Marshall Islands at the International Court of Justice Against the United Kingdomin Terms of an International Security 121
Justyna Eska-Mikołajewska, Stability and Instability in Oceania:The Case of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Fiji 127
Jowita Brudnicka, Strategies of the Oceania States in the Prognostic Perspective: Scenarios of Development 143
Masum Billah, Constitutional Property Clause: A Comment on the Bangladeshi, New Zealand and Polish Approach . 163
Adam Jakuszewicz, Endangered Statehood of Sinking Island States: A Legal Challenge to the International Community . 171
Przemysław Osóbka, International Responsibility of States on Climat Change Consequences in the Frame of Public International Law . 189
Dariusz Zdziech, An Overview of the Polish Relation with Vanuatu . 209
Authors . 231