Australia's arc of instability : the political and cultural dynamics of regional security / edited by Dennis Rumley, Vivian Louis Forbes and Christopher Griffin
The emergence of Australia's arc of instability / Dennis Rumley -- Australia's maritime space : conflict and cooperation / Vivian Louis Forbes -- Australia's unauthorized arrivals : security threat or moral responsibility? / Trudy Hoad -- Christmas Island : remote no more / Ee Tiang Heng and Vivian Louis Forbes -- Indonesia and the arc of instability / Bilveer Singh -- East Timor in the arc of instability / James Dunn -- West Papua : Indonesia's 26th province or Australia's new neighbor? / Keith Suter -- Discontents of daily life in the South Pacific / William C. Clarke -- Papua New Guinea : disorderly democracy or dysfunctional state? / Ron May -- Solomon Islands : unity in diversity : the end of a dream? / Trevor H.B. Sofield -- Nauru in the arc of instability: too many degrees of freedom? / Richard Herr and Donald Potter -- Vanuatu 2001-2004 : political will and the containment of unrest / Michael Morgan -- The French geopolitical project in New Caledonia / Dennis Rumley -- Unity, identity, nation building : challenges to Fijian leadership / Christopher Griffin -- Rock of ages : tension underlying stability in Tonga / I.C. Campbell -- Samoa : Australia's Pacific success story? / Penelope Schoeffel and Malama Meleisea
Summary
Aims to describe, discuss and evaluate the causes and likely implications of the contested notion of an emergent arc of instability for Australia and its region. This book is intended for specialists in foreign affairs, international relations and political geography
