Abstract:
The Pacific Islands are Australia’s ‘arc of instability’: Commodore Frank Bainimarama’s coup-installed government rules in Fiji; the Solomon Islands struggle to recover from civil violence and the disintegration of central authority in 2003; and Australia’s Strategic Studies Institute warns that former colony Papua New Guinea is close to implosion. This article concludes that the problems in the Pacific arise mostly because white nations, primarily Australia and New Zealand, project their own concerns onto the Pacific Islands.
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