American
Samoa - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/american%5Fsamoa/index.html)
A website maintained by the Australian government that provides links related
to American Samoa on matters such as government representation and information
about economics and trade, government and politics and foreign relations.
American Samoan Constitution (http://www.asbar.org/asconst.htm)
View the American Samoa Constitution, effective July 1, 1967.
American Samoa Government (http://americansamoa.gov/)
Official American Samoan government page.
Guide to Law Online: American
Samoa (http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/us-as.html)
The Guide to Law Online is an annotated compendium of sources accessible through
the Internet. Links provide access to primary documents, legal commentary, and
general government information about specific jurisdictions and topics.
Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (http://www.paclii.org)
The Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute is an initiative of the University
of the South Pacific School of Law to promote access to Pacific law. Its web
site contains databases for sixteen different countries/territories/departments
as well as full text versions of the Journal of South Pacific Law, and numerous
treaties and conventions.
Rory Ewins's Pacific Islands Politics (http://speedysnail.com/pacific/)
This web site contains links to Rory Erwin's writings on Pacific Islands politics.
These include articles about the Fiji Coups, the Bougainville Conflict, the Silver
Jubilee of King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, and the effect of tradition upon politics.
State and Local Government on the
Net: American Samoa (http://www.statelocalgov.net/am.htm)
Provides links to American Samoa government's legislative, judicial, and executive
branches as well as libraries located on the islands.
State, Society and Governance
in Melanesia (http://rspas.anu.edu.au/melanesia/)
Run by the Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies at Australian National
University, this project encourages scholarship and dialogue on political science
in Melanesia. The project emphasizes Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu,
New Caledonia and Fiji but also includes Papua/Irian Jaya and Timor in the culturally
related region to the west and Pacific Islands countries to the east and north.
Its web site contains information about its staff, publications, conferences
and seminars, as well as full text documents of papers on politics within the
region.
U.S. Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: Samoa (http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2007/100536.htm)
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: 2007 released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
U.S. Law Library of Congress. Guide to Law Online: American Samoa (http://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide/nations/us-as.html)
Links to the constitution; executive, judicial, and legislative bodies; as well as legal guides; miscellaneous, and general resources.
Who's Who in the Pacific - American Samoa (http://www.mfat.govt.nz/Foreign-Relations/Pacific/Whos-who/0-who-amsamoa.php)
From the website of the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this page provides information about who's who in American Samoa.
World Statesmen.org: American Samoa (http://www.worldstatesmen.org/AmSamoa.html)
Online encyclopedia of the leaders of nations and territories. Site provides detailed chronologies, flags, national anthems, maps, and indexes for each country for a portrait of polities past and present. |