2 October 2026 (Friday), 15:00-16:00 JST
IDEC Small Conference Room
(in-person only)
About the Lecture
By bringing together scholarship on rupture and organised hypocrisy, this presentation examines Western reactions to Vanuatu’s Citizenship by Investment (CBI) program, which legally permits foreigners to acquire citizenship but has been associated with corruption, crime and insecurity. Through examining responses from Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, the hypocrisy of their positions on the CBI is, to varying degrees, exacerbated and highlighted by ruptures – moments of significant change – that lead to a substantial shift of policy and/or discourse. Economic, political and environmental ruptures provide a catalyst for both exacerbating and addressing existing hypocrisies; in turn, they provide policy-makers and academics with an opportunity for understanding and responding to global policies that can unduly focus on the ‘failings’ of countries in the Global South, while overlooking those of the Global North.
About the Speaker
Dr. Henrietta McNeill-Stowers is a Research Fellow (Pacific security, regionalism, geopolitics) at in the Coral Bell School of Asia-Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University. Her research focus is Pacific regional security and the security-migration nexus, particularly transnational crime, criminal deportations, border security, citizenship, and security cooperation. She is the co-editor of the volumes ‘Security Cooperation in the Pacific Islands’ (2025) with Joanne Wallis, James Batley, and Anna Powles and ‘Power and influence in the Pacific Islands: Understanding statecraftiness’ (2024) with Joanne Wallis, Alan Tidwell and Michael Rose.
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