Examines two intertwined historical processes: the development of a Hawai`i-based pan-Oceanian policy and underlying ideology, which in turn provided the rationale for the second process, the spread of the Hawaiian Kingdom's constitutional model to other Pacific archipelagos.

Lorenz Gonschor teaches at the University of French Polynesia in Punaauia, Tahiti. He is an affiliated researcher with Yunnan University in Kunming, China.