Perkembangan Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) sebagai institusi sub-kawasan Melanesia berdampak pada perkembangan literatur-literatur akademik yang membahas dinamika institusi MSG dari awal proses integrasi hingga perkembangan kontemporer. Kajian literatur ini memetakan perkembangan dengan metode taksonomi terhadap 27 literatur. Melalui metode tersebut, studi tentang perkembangan ini terbagi ke dalam tiga tema utama yaitu latar belakang proses integrasi sub-kawasan Melanesia, dinamika MSG sebagai institusi sub-kawasan Melanesia, dan dinamika anggota-anggota MSG. Studi ini juga melihat faktor identitas muncul dalam pembahasan integrasi MSG maupun penentuan agenda penting. Literatur tentang MSG saat ini didominasi oleh pembahasan tentang dinamika politik dan ekonomi. Studi ini menemukan keterbatasan literatur MSG yang membahas keterkaitan MSG dengan fenomena terkini yaitu kehadiran Tiongkok di kawasan. Tinjauan literatur ini dapat memberikan pemahaman yang lebih komprehensif terhadap dinamika MSG sebagai institusi sub-kawasan di Pasifik.

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The development of Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) as Melanesian sub-regional institution has influenced the development of academic literatures about the dynamics of MSG from the beginning of interaction process to contemporary development. Study about analyzes MSG’s development through the taxonomy method of 27 literatures. This literature review finds three main themes, namely the integration background of MSG, the dynamics of MSS as Melanesian institution, and the dynamics of MSG’s members. This study argues that identity arises in MSG integration discussion and the framing of institution’s urgent agenda. This literature review also finds that the dynamics of MSG literatures were dominated by political and economic dynamics. This study is also lack of MSG literatures that discusses the correlation between MSG and current phenomena that is China’s presence in region. This literature reviews can give a more comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of MSG as a sub-regional institution in the Pacific.