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ISPI's research library holds 56 papers, free to read: 12 white papers, 10 Hawaii policy research papers, 19 policy briefs and 15 commentaries. Each paper is published under the ISPI Research Staff byline and lists its sources.
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6Research books
62Total publications
7Research domains
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⭐ Flagship Publication — Research Report · 2026
Island-State Security: Why Mainstream Frameworks Fail Pacific and Coastal Communities
And What Policymakers Must Build Instead
ISPI's foundational research document — establishing the core intellectual mandate for all subsequent research. Examines five structural gaps that mainland policy consistently fails to address and proposes a practitioner-grounded framework for island-state security policy development. Required reading for any government agency, foundation, or institution working on Pacific and island community public safety.
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Hawaii Policy Research Series — 10 Documents
View documents →Island-specific policy research on Hawaii's most pressing public safety, community resilience, and governance challenges.
Hawaii Quality of Life & Infrastructure Policy Research
Policy Brief|ISPI-HI-01
Housing Affordability in Hawaii: Why Island-Specific Policy Frameworks Are Required
Examines how island conditions shape Hawaii's housing costs and public workforce, reviews policy options, and gives a neutral description of the 2026 RISE bonds amendment.
Download PDF View details →Policy Brief|ISPI-HI-02
Homelessness and Public Safety in Hawaii: The Island-Specific Framework Required
An island framework for homelessness and public safety in Hawaii, where dispersal is not an option, drawing on the 2024 Point-in-Time Count.
Download PDF View details →Assessment Report|ISPI-HI-03
Hawaii Law Enforcement Workforce Crisis: Assessment and Evidence-Based Policy Response
Examines HPD's officer vacancies (448 sworn vacancies as of February 2, 2026, per HPD testimony) and non-salary retention interventions for island law enforcement.
Download PDF View details →Assessment Report|ISPI-HI-04
Maui Recovery and Emergency Management Reform: Three Years After Lahaina
Independent assessment of whether Hawaii's emergency management frameworks have been reformed since August 2023 — or whether the $2B federal recovery investment has bypassed the design failures that produced the disaster.
Download PDF View details →Policy Brief|ISPI-HI-05
Federal Funding Uncertainty and Hawaii's Island Resilience
Examines how federal funding uncertainty reaches Hawaii's public safety and emergency management programs through state revenue and grants, and sets out state options to reduce exposure.
Download PDF View details →Assessment Report|ISPI-HI-06
Hawaii's Infrastructure Deficit: Aging Systems, Island Vulnerability, and the Resilience Investment Required
Examines ports, water systems, and communications in Hawaii's emergency resilience, drawing on state harbor data and the Lahaina fire reports.
Download PDF View details →Policy Brief|ISPI-HI-07
Native Hawaiian Land Rights, DHHL Policy, and Community Safety
Examines the DHHL waitlist and Act 279 in relation to public safety policy, and recommends studying whether stable housing affects youth justice outcomes.
Download PDF View details →Policy Brief|ISPI-HI-08
Climate Resilience and Island Emergency Policy: Adapting Hawaii's Preparedness Framework
Identifies five ways climate-related hazards compound island emergency vulnerability in Hawaii, and the planning adaptations ISPI recommends.
Download PDF View details →Policy Brief|ISPI-HI-09
Hawaii's Aging Population, Healthcare Infrastructure, and Island-Specific Resilience Gaps
Examines single-provider workforce constraints, insider risk, and supply reserves for island healthcare systems serving Hawaii's aging population.
Download PDF View details →Policy Brief|ISPI-HI-10
AI Governance and Public Safety Technology in Hawaii: An Island-Calibrated Policy Framework
Addresses the small-population AI audit gap for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities — and presents ISPI's four-component island AI governance framework for public safety technology deployment.
Download PDF View details →Research Reports — 12 Full Research Documents
View documents →Policy Brief2026All DomainsFlagship
Island-State Security: Why Mainstream Frameworks Fail Pacific and Coastal Communities
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
ISPI's foundational white paper. Examines five structural gaps that mainland policy consistently fails to address in island communities and proposes a practitioner-grounded framework for island-state security policy development. The starting point for any government agency, foundation, or institution working on Pacific and island community public safety.
Policy Brief
Island-State Security
ISPI · 2026
Policy Brief2026Insider ThreatNew
Organizational Insider Threat Assessment Framework for Island and Small-State Communities
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
A full practitioner framework for insider threat detection, reporting, and response specifically designed for small island-state organizations. Addresses detection calibration for social network environments, third-party reporting architecture, culturally adapted behavioral baselines for Pacific Island contexts, and graduated response protocols for sole-provider workforces.
Policy Brief
Insider Threat Assessment Framework
ISPI · 2026
Policy Brief2026Emergency PreparednessNew
Island Emergency Management Framework: Replacing Continental Assumptions With Island-Reality Design
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
ISPI's framework for island emergency management — built on five first principles that fundamentally differ from continental assumptions: self-sufficiency primacy, shelter-in-place as co-equal strategy, pre-positioned community reserves, communication redundancy without infrastructure dependence, and maritime mutual aid. Includes the Maui wildfire as a framework failure case study.
Policy Brief
Island Emergency Management Framework
ISPI · 2026
Policy Brief2026Campus SafetyNew
Campus Safety Framework for Geographically Isolated Institutions
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Active threat response protocols, Clery Act compliance guidance, and institutional emergency preparedness for Hawaii and Pacific Island campuses where law enforcement response may take longer than in metropolitan settings.
Policy Brief
Campus Safety Framework
ISPI · 2026
Research Report2026Law EnforcementNew
Public Safety Workforce Policy for Island and High Cost-of-Living Communities
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
HPD reported 448 vacant sworn positions in February 2026. This white paper examines the structural compensation-cost-of-living gap driving the Hawaii law enforcement recruitment and retention crisis — and identifies the specific evidence-based policy interventions that available research most strongly supports.
Research Report
Law Enforcement Workforce Policy
ISPI · 2026
Research Report2026Emergency PreparednessNew
Supply Chain Security and Community Resilience in Island Communities
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Hawaii imports an estimated 85-90% of its food. This white paper examines the supply chain singularity problem — the structural vulnerability that has no continental analog — and proposes a comprehensive policy framework for island supply chain security and community resilience.
Research Report
Supply Chain Security & Community Resilience
ISPI · 2026
Research Report2026Law EnforcementNew
Community Policing Policy for Small Pacific Island Jurisdictions
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
A framework for law enforcement in communities where everyone is connected. How small Pacific Island agencies can leverage community embeddedness as a policing asset while managing the conflict-of-interest and procedural integrity risks that deep community connection creates.
Research Report
Community Policing Pacific Island Jurisdictions
ISPI · 2026
Research Report2026Workforce DevelopmentNew
Public Safety Workforce Development Policy for Island and Pacific Territory Communities
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Recruitment, retention, training access, and wellness policy for island first responders — addressing the geographic training isolation, cost-of-living misalignment, and cultural stigma barriers that compound into workforce capacity deficits far larger than any individual challenge would suggest.
Research Report
Public Safety Workforce Development
ISPI · 2026
Research Report2026At-Risk YouthNew
At-Risk Youth Intervention Policy for Pacific Island and Native Hawaiian Communities: Evidence, Gaps, and Reform
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
State and OHA studies document overrepresentation of Native Hawaiian youth in Hawaii's juvenile justice system. This white paper examines the barriers that have limited alternatives to detention in island community juvenile justice systems — and the policy reforms most likely to produce measurable improvement.
Research Report
At-Risk Youth Intervention Policy
ISPI · 2026
Research Report2026Governance & Global PolicyNew
Democratic Resilience and Governance Stability in Pacific Island Nations
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Using the 2022 Solomon Islands–China security agreement as a case, this white paper examines what predicts democratic governance resilience in small Pacific Island states — and the policy interventions most likely to strengthen it against deliberate external pressure.
Research Report
Democratic Resilience Pacific Island Nations
ISPI · 2026
Research Report2026Governance & Global PolicyNew
AI Governance and Public Safety Technology Policy for Island and Small-State Communities
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
NIST has documented demographic differentials in face recognition error rates, and small jurisdictions have fewer means to detect bias. ISPI's AI governance framework addresses pre-deployment validation, third-party audit requirements, and small jurisdiction oversight architecture.
Research Report
AI Governance & Public Safety Technology
ISPI · 2026
Research Report2026Corporate Security & ESGNew
Corporate Security and ESG Risk Policy for Island and Pacific Operations
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Continental corporate security frameworks miss five structural risk categories specific to island operations: supply chain singularity, hospitality insider threat, emergency preparedness duty of care, ESG accountability to indigenous communities, and reputational risk in close-knit island social environments. ISPI's integrated assessment framework addresses all five.
Research Report
Corporate Security & ESG Island Operations
ISPI · 2026
Core Security — Insider Threat & Workplace Security
View documents →Policy Brief2026Insider ThreatNew
The Insider Threat in Small Organizations
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Why detection frameworks built for large institutions fail island-state workplaces. Examines four behavioral indicators systematically missed in small Pacific Island and Hawaii community organizations and proposes alternative detection architecture for environments where anonymity is structurally impossible.
Policy Brief
The Insider Threat in Small Organizations
ISPI · 2026
Policy Brief2026Insider ThreatNew
The Digital Insider Threat
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Cybersecurity risks in island-state organizations where IT and security functions overlap. Examines the segregation of duties problem, cloud adoption governance gaps, and the specific digital insider threat profile of small Pacific Island and Hawaii government and private sector organizations.
Policy Brief
The Digital Insider Threat
ISPI · 2026
Policy Brief2026Insider ThreatNew
Supply Chain Insider Risk in Island Ports
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
When the port employee is both the security officer and the longshoreman. Examines workforce social density, cargo handling insider threat vectors, and the inadequacy of CBP frameworks for small island port environments where everyone knows everyone.
Policy Brief
Supply Chain Insider Risk in Island Ports
ISPI · 2026
Commentary2026Insider ThreatNew
The Invisible Insider: Insider Threat in Hawaii's Tourism and Hospitality Industry
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
The risk nobody is assessing. Examines access breadth in high-turnover resort environments, the guest data vulnerability dimension, and ISPI's integrated three-dimension assessment framework for hospitality insider threat detection.
Commentary
The Invisible Insider
ISPI · 2026
Policy Brief2026Insider ThreatNew
Trusted to Govern, Positioned to Harm: Insider Threat in Small Island Government Agencies
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
The policy gap no one has addressed. Examines multi-function government employees in small island agencies, paper compliance that provides no real risk reduction, and the political dynamics unique to small island government insider threat environments.
Policy Brief
Trusted to Govern, Positioned to Harm
ISPI · 2026
Commentary2026Insider ThreatNew
Calibrating for Community: Why Behavioral Threat Assessment Must Be Culturally Adapted for Pacific Island and Native Hawaiian Contexts
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Why BTAM frameworks developed largely in the United States can produce false positives and false negatives in Pacific Island and Native Hawaiian organizational contexts — and what culturally-calibrated assessment requires.
Commentary
Calibrating for Community
ISPI · 2026
Policy Brief2026Insider ThreatNew
Insider Threat in Island Healthcare Systems
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Patient safety, data security, and workforce integrity in geographically isolated medical environments. Examines the sole provider constraint that makes standard personnel responses to concerning behavior operationally catastrophic in island healthcare contexts.
Policy Brief
Insider Threat in Island Healthcare
ISPI · 2026
Book2025Insider Threat
The Prepared Leader
Warren Pulley · 2025
Threat assessment, emergency preparedness, and safety frameworks for colleges, institutions, and businesses.
Book
The Prepared Leader
Warren Pulley
Book2025Insider Threat
Threat Assessment Handbook
Warren Pulley · 2025
Practitioner frameworks for identifying, scoring, and prioritizing threats before they materialize — grounded in Warren Pulley's career of more than 2,400 behavioral threat assessments.
Book
Threat Assessment Handbook
Warren Pulley
Emergency Management — Preparedness & Island Resilience
View documents →Commentary2026Emergency PreparednessNew
After the Fire: Three Years On — What the Maui Wildfire Reveals About Emergency Management Policy
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Three years after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in over a century, ISPI examines what has changed in Hawaii's emergency management infrastructure — and what systemic failures remain unaddressed. Analyzes mass notification failures, evacuation constraints, and EOC coordination gaps.
Commentary
After the Fire
ISPI · 2026
Policy Brief2026Emergency PreparednessNew
When 90 Percent Arrives by Ship: Supply Chain Security and Island Community Vulnerability
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Hawaii imports an estimated 85-90% of its food. Examines supply chain singularity risk, port security framework gaps, and the inadequacy of 72-hour continental emergency assumptions for island communities.
Policy Brief
When 90% Arrives by Ship
ISPI · 2026
Policy Brief2026Emergency PreparednessNew
Continuity Without a Continent: Redesigning COOP for Island Government Agencies
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
COOP planning assumes geographic options that island governments do not have. Examines the alternative facility myth, shelter-in-place continuity as primary strategy, and digital continuity infrastructure for governments that cannot relocate essential functions.
Policy Brief
Continuity Without a Continent
ISPI · 2026
Commentary2026Emergency PreparednessNew
When the Ocean Comes Inland: Tsunami Preparedness Policy for Pacific Island and Hawaii Coastal Communities
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center works. The community preparedness and policy infrastructure connecting warning to survival does not always work — especially in Pacific Islander language communities and communities with limited evacuation route capacity.
Commentary
When the Ocean Comes Inland
ISPI · 2026
Policy Brief2026Emergency PreparednessNew
Hurricane Season in the Pacific: Emergency Management Policy Gaps for Tropical Cyclone Events
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Hawaii has not had a major hurricane landfall since 1992. Thirty years of non-event has produced planning gaps that ISPI's analysis identifies as consequential — particularly for a direct strike on Oahu with simultaneous airport closure, port disruption, and power grid failure.
Policy Brief
Hurricane Season in the Pacific
ISPI · 2026
Commentary2026Emergency PreparednessNew
Beyond Maui: Wildfire Risk, Emergency Management Policy, and the Island Communities That Are Next
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Which Hawaii communities share Lahaina's three-factor wildfire vulnerability profile — dry fuel adjacency, limited evacuation capacity, inadequate warning infrastructure — and what policy interventions the evidence supports.
Commentary
Beyond Maui
ISPI · 2026
Law Enforcement & Justice — Public Safety Workforce
View documents →Commentary2026Workforce DevelopmentNew
The Silent Crisis: First Responder Mental Health in Island Communities
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Why the mainland mental health safety net does not reach island first responders. Nationally, more police officers and firefighters died by suicide in 2017 than in the line of duty (Ruderman Family Foundation, 2018). Examines infrastructure gaps, cultural stigma dynamics, and workforce shortage compounding effects.
Commentary
The Silent Crisis
ISPI · 2026
Policy Brief2026Workforce DevelopmentNew
The Recruitment Crisis: Why Hawaii's Law Enforcement Agencies Cannot Hire
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
HPD was down more than 20 percent of its uniformed officers in mid-2026 (Hawaii News Now). The compensation and cost-of-living gap behind officer departures, and policy options to address it.
Policy Brief
The Recruitment Crisis
ISPI · 2026
Commentary2026Workforce DevelopmentNew
Policing the Community You Are From: Diversity, Cultural Competency, and Workforce Development in Hawaii Law Enforcement
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Why workforce diversity, language and cultural competency matter for community policing in Hawaii and Pacific Island law enforcement, and the structural barriers that shape who joins.
Commentary
Policing the Community You Are From
ISPI · 2026
Policy Brief2026Workforce DevelopmentNew
The Training Gap: Why Island Law Enforcement Cannot Access the Professional Development Their Officers Need
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Geographic distance from training centers, travel costs, and small agency budgets systematically deny island officers access to the specialized investigative training that their continental counterparts take for granted. The cases that go unresolved as a result.
Policy Brief
The Training Gap
ISPI · 2026
Book2025Workforce Development
Uniformed Silence
Warren Pulley · 2025
The systemic challenges facing public safety professionals in island communities — workforce culture, institutional barriers, mental health stigma, and the policy reform agenda required to build sustainable public safety workforces.
Book
Uniformed Silence
Warren Pulley
Book2025Multi-Threat Safety
Integrated: Mastering Multi-Threat Safety in Volatile Environments
Warren Pulley · 2025
An integrated safety framework for volatile environments — combining physical security, behavioral assessment, emergency management, and policy into a single practitioner-grounded model applicable to island and coastal community contexts.
Book
Integrated: Mastering Multi-Threat Safety
Warren Pulley
Governance & Global — Campus & Institutional Safety
View documents →Policy Brief2026Campus SafetyNew
Campus Safety in Isolation: Why Hawaii and Pacific Island Universities Need Their Own Security Framework
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Active threat frameworks often assume a quick law enforcement arrival. Rural and island campuses may wait longer, so campus plans need to cover the interval before police arrive.
Policy Brief
Campus Safety in Isolation
ISPI · 2026
Policy Brief2026Campus SafetyNew
Safe Schools in Isolated Communities: K-12 School Safety Policy for Hawaii and Pacific Island Schools
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Examines active threat response for rural Hawaii and Pacific Island schools where response time realities make standard protocols inadequate from the moment the event begins.
Policy Brief
Safe Schools in Isolated Communities
ISPI · 2026
Commentary2026Campus SafetyNew
The Hospital at the End of the Road: Security Policy for Island Healthcare Facilities
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Maui Memorial is Maui's only trauma center. Island hospitals are both critical infrastructure and community lifeline — and their security policy must reflect both roles simultaneously.
Commentary
The Hospital at the End of the Road
ISPI · 2026
Policy Brief2026Campus SafetyNew
Securing the Seat of Government: Physical Security Policy for Small Island Jurisdiction Government Buildings
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
When the courthouse houses the supreme court, the legislature, and the governor's office simultaneously — because it's the only building large enough. Compound vulnerability with no continental analog and no existing security framework designed to address it.
Policy Brief
Securing the Seat of Government
ISPI · 2026
Book2025Campus Safety
Campus Under Siege
Warren Pulley · 2025
Why universities are soft targets — behavioral threat assessment gaps, mass notification failures, access control weaknesses, and crisis leadership frameworks for administrators and trustees.
Book
Campus Under Siege
Warren Pulley
Book2025Campus Safety
Locked Down: The Access Control Playbook
Warren Pulley · 2025
Physical security architecture, access control policy frameworks, and implementation guidance for schools, campuses, and corporate environments.
Book
Locked Down
Warren Pulley
Law Enforcement & Justice — Community Policing & Justice
View documents →Policy Brief2026Law EnforcementNew
Governing in the Gap: Public Safety Policy for U.S. Pacific Territories
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Guam, American Samoa, CNMI — 330,000 Americans with no dedicated public safety policy research institution until ISPI. Examines jurisdictional complexity, federal funding formula failures, and the complete absence of island-specific policy frameworks.
Policy Brief
Governing in the Gap
ISPI · 2026
Policy Brief2026Law EnforcementNew
Tourism, Trafficking, and Island Vulnerability
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
How tourism-dependent island economies create systematic human trafficking risk. Structural vulnerability analysis, port-based interdiction gaps, and small agency investigative capacity limitations in Pacific and Caribbean island communities.
Policy Brief
Tourism, Trafficking & Island Vulnerability
ISPI · 2026
Policy Brief2026Law EnforcementNew
Policing Where Everyone Is Connected: Community Policing Models for Small Pacific Island Jurisdictions
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
The community policing paradox in small island jurisdictions where officers went to school with the people they're arresting. Island-specific framework for preserving trust-building benefits while managing the conflict-of-interest risks that close community relationships create.
Policy Brief
Policing Where Everyone Is Connected
ISPI · 2026
Commentary2026Law EnforcementNew
The Blue Highway: Drug Trafficking Networks in the Pacific and Their Community-Level Implications
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Hawaii ranks among the highest per-capita methamphetamine markets in the U.S. Examines trafficking network structure, youth recruitment in island community social networks, and the community safety dimensions that interdiction-focused policy consistently underanalyzes.
Commentary
The Blue Highway
ISPI · 2026
Policy Brief2026Law EnforcementNew
Justice for Island Youth: Reforming Juvenile Justice Policy for Pacific Island and Hawaii Communities
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Native Hawaiian youth incarcerated at disproportionate rates for decades. Pacific Islander youth overrepresented in Hawaii Family Court. The evidence-based alternatives exist. ISPI examines the specific barriers to implementing them in island community juvenile justice systems.
Policy Brief
Justice for Island Youth
ISPI · 2026
Law Enforcement & Justice — Juvenile Justice & Youth
View documents →Commentary2026At-Risk YouthNew
The Youth Challenge Model: What Quasi-Military Residential Programs Teach Us About At-Risk Youth Intervention Policy
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
What the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe model, operated in Hawaii since 1994, suggests about effective at-risk youth intervention design for island communities.
Commentary
The Youth Challenge Model
ISPI · 2026
Policy BriefForthcoming 2026At-Risk Youth
Indigenous Youth and the Justice System: Cultural Identity, Trauma, and Intervention Policy in Native Hawaiian Communities
Island Security Policy Institute · Expected 2026
A comprehensive policy analysis of Native Hawaiian youth overrepresentation in Hawaii's juvenile justice system — examining research gaps, cultural and institutional factors driving disparate outcomes, and evidence-based intervention reforms.
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Forthcoming
Indigenous Youth & Justice
ISPI · 2026
Governance & Global Policy — Pacific & Democratic Resilience
View documents →Commentary2026AI & Public SafetyNew
When the Algorithm Doesn't Know the Island: AI-Assisted Public Safety Tools in Pacific and Island Community Contexts
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
AI public safety tools developed and tested outside island contexts may miscalibrate for Pacific Island and Hawaii populations — and the accountability gap makes this risk invisible in small jurisdictions with no oversight infrastructure to detect it.
Commentary
When the Algorithm Doesn't Know the Island
ISPI · 2026
Commentary2026Corporate Security & ESGNew
Security, Risk, and ESG in Island Operations: What Corporations Operating in Hawaii and the Pacific Must Know
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Five critical gaps in continental corporate security frameworks applied to island operations — supply chain singularity, hospitality insider threat, emergency preparedness duty of care, indigenous community ESG accountability, and reputational risk dynamics in close-knit island communities.
Commentary
Security, Risk & ESG in Island Operations
ISPI · 2026
Commentary2026Climate SecurityNew
Climate Security and Island Public Safety: How Climate Change Is Actively Reshaping Pacific and Coastal Island Communities
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Kiribati is buying land in Fiji. Hawaii's coastal infrastructure is degrading. Five documented ways climate change is currently reshaping public safety challenges in Pacific and coastal island communities — with specific policy recommendations.
Commentary
Climate Security & Island Public Safety
ISPI · 2026
Policy Brief2026Pacific GovernanceNew
Small States, Large Pressures: Democratic Resilience and Institutional Fragility in Pacific Island Nations
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Using the 2022 Solomon Islands–China security agreement as a case, ISPI examines the institutional capacity factors that predict democratic governance resilience in Pacific Island nations.
Policy Brief
Small States, Large Pressures
ISPI · 2026
Commentary2026Pacific GovernanceNew
What Beijing's Pacific Agreements Mean for Community Safety
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
The geopolitical analysis of China's Pacific security agreements is extensive. The community-level public safety implications — for the daily safety of the roughly 13 million people of the Pacific Islands region — are almost entirely absent from that analysis. ISPI fills the gap.
Commentary
What Beijing's Pacific Agreements Mean
ISPI · 2026
Policy Brief2026Public HealthNew
The Last Hospital on the Island: Public Health Emergency Infrastructure Policy for Geographically Isolated Island Communities
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
Island hospitals have limited surge capacity and few nearby alternatives. Examines single-provider healthcare vulnerability and island-specific preparedness standards.
Policy Brief
The Last Hospital on the Island
ISPI · 2026
Commentary2026ESG & IndigenousNew
Beyond Land Acknowledgment: What Genuine ESG Accountability Looks Like for Corporations Operating on Native Hawaiian and Pacific Island Lands
Island Security Policy Institute · 2026
ISPI examines five practices that distinguish substantive corporate ESG accountability from performative land acknowledgment — including the specific security dimension that standard ESG frameworks overlook.
Commentary
Beyond Land Acknowledgment
ISPI · 2026
Forthcoming Research — 2 Publications
View documents →Research ReportForthcoming Q4 2026Emergency Preparedness
After the Fire: A Comprehensive Policy Analysis of the 2023 Maui Wildfire Emergency Management Response
Island Security Policy Institute · Expected Q4 2026
ISPI's comprehensive research white paper expanding the 2026 commentary — complete case documentation, framework failure analysis, and specific island emergency management reform recommendations for Hawaii state government and Pacific territory emergency managers.
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Forthcoming
After the Fire
ISPI · 2026
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