Add to ORKGOngoing instability in East Timor and social and political fragility in the Solomons, PNG and other Melanesian states call into question the sustainability and viability of Australian policy on the ‘arc of instability’ to our north writes Michael Dillon. In recent years, Australia has been prepared to inject troops and security forces into East Timor and the Solomons (twice in each case, always as part of a wider coalition with a formal mandate). The Prime Minister recently pointed to the ongoing potential for instability in the region as justification for the expansion of our own ADF and AFP force levels. This persistent instability is rooted in a complex array of deep-seated conditions that are to a varying extent present across the arc: ...
East Timor’s violent transition to independence, which began early in 1999, presented the Australian...
Following the 1999 intervention to quell the transitional violence in East Timor, the Australian Gov...
It seems unimaginable that Australia could be involved in the war in Yemen, arguably the world’s wor...
The proposition that Australia faces an 'arc of instability' to its north has been an important feat...
Over the past decade, Melanesia’s typically ineffectual and corrupted governance, fragile economies ...
This article argues that, rather than viewing Melanesia as an “arc of instability”, Australia should...
Australia has had a long, often indifferent, and occasionally troubled relationship with the territo...
Despite growing levels of conflict and instability in parts of the southwest Pacific, Australia has,...
Despite growing levels of conflict and instability in parts of the southwest Pacific, Australia has,...
Vijay Naidu of the University of the South Pacific argues that the Australian Defence White Paper 20...
Abstract As a consequence of its membership of a US-centred global alliance network, Australia’s re...
There have been many developments since the collapse of state authority in Timor-Leste. The country ...
Following the 1999 intervention to quell the transitional violence in East Timor, the Australian Gov...
Australia\u27s policy in the South Pacific is obsessed with security concerns and market-driven solu...
This special volume of Security Challenges contains contributions from leading experts and Pacific s...
East Timor’s violent transition to independence, which began early in 1999, presented the Australian...
Following the 1999 intervention to quell the transitional violence in East Timor, the Australian Gov...
It seems unimaginable that Australia could be involved in the war in Yemen, arguably the world’s wor...
The proposition that Australia faces an 'arc of instability' to its north has been an important feat...
Over the past decade, Melanesia’s typically ineffectual and corrupted governance, fragile economies ...
This article argues that, rather than viewing Melanesia as an “arc of instability”, Australia should...
Australia has had a long, often indifferent, and occasionally troubled relationship with the territo...
Despite growing levels of conflict and instability in parts of the southwest Pacific, Australia has,...
Despite growing levels of conflict and instability in parts of the southwest Pacific, Australia has,...
Vijay Naidu of the University of the South Pacific argues that the Australian Defence White Paper 20...
Abstract As a consequence of its membership of a US-centred global alliance network, Australia’s re...
There have been many developments since the collapse of state authority in Timor-Leste. The country ...
Following the 1999 intervention to quell the transitional violence in East Timor, the Australian Gov...
Australia\u27s policy in the South Pacific is obsessed with security concerns and market-driven solu...
This special volume of Security Challenges contains contributions from leading experts and Pacific s...
East Timor’s violent transition to independence, which began early in 1999, presented the Australian...
Following the 1999 intervention to quell the transitional violence in East Timor, the Australian Gov...
It seems unimaginable that Australia could be involved in the war in Yemen, arguably the world’s wor...