Includes bibliographical references and index.

Liberation and conquest in Micronesia / Lazarus E. Salii -- The democratization of the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands / Sherwood Lingenfelter and Daniel T. Hughes -- Catalysts or barnacles in Micronesia: the first five years of the Peace Corps / Dirk A. Ballendorf and Howard Seay -- Language and politics in Guam and Micronesia / Monika Kehoe -- The Marshall Islands / Hamlet J. Barry, III -- Dependency and nondevelopment in Micronesia / Noel Grogan -- Australia and New Zealand and Pacific-Asia / C. Hartley Grattan -- Dilemmas of New Zealand defense in the seventies / W.T. Roy -- Western Samoa: a New Zealand experiment / Felise Va'a -- Toward a Papua New Guinea foreign policy: constraints and choice / Ralph R. Premdas -- Economic development in the South Pacific: some problems and prospects / John Kearsley Thomson.

(cont.) New Caledonia and the French connection / W. Donald McTaggart -- France, French Polynesia, and the South Pacific in the nuclear age / William E. Tagupa -- Tropical torpor: the United States in the South Pacific Commission / Richard A. Herr -- American impact on the Pacific islands since World War II / Donald D. Johnson -- Imperial remnants: decolonization and political change in the British Pacific islands / Barrie MacDonald.