The Good Neighbour: Australian Peace Support Operations in the Pacific Islands 1980-2006

ISBN-13: 9781107019713 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 648 str.

Bob Breen

Opis

The Good Neighbour explores the Australian government's efforts to support peace in the Pacific Islands from 1980 to 2006.

Spis treści

Part I. Pacific War to the Bougainville Crisis, 1942–90: 1. Setting the scene: Australian security and aid policies in the Pacific Islands, 1942–90; 2. Standing by Vanuatu in 1980 and 1988; 3. Testing Australian peacemaking: Fiji coups, 1987; 4. Intervention? The beginnings of the Bougainville crisis, 1989; Part II. The Bougainville Crisis, 1990–7: 5. Facilitating Tok Tok, 1990–3; 6. Giving peace a chance: Australian peacemaking and peacekeeping in 1994; 7. Enough is enough: from Cairns to Sandline, 1995–7; Part III. Australian Intervention in Bougainville: 8. New Zealand joins in: designing and deploying the Truce Monitoring Group in 1997; 9. Smiling and waving: establishing truce monitoring, December 1997–February 1998; 10. Selling Lincoln: finding a peace to keep, January–April 1998; 11. Setting precedents: establishing peace-monitoring operations in 1998; 12. Getting the political focus right: PMG contributions to negotiations in 1999; 13. Trying to leave: reducing ADF support to the PMG, October 1999–May 2001; 14. From offstage to centre stage: securing the guns, part 1: 1998–2002; 15. Trying to finish the job: securing guns, part 2: June 2002–June 2003; 16. Mission accomplished? Peacemaking and peacekeeping in Bougainville, 1988–2003; Part IV. Australia's Interventions in Solomon Islands: 17. From peacemaking to peacekeeping: Australia and the troubled Solomon Islands, 1997–2000; 18. A futile exercise: the International Peace Monitoring Team in Solomon Islands, 2000–2; 19. The path to intervention: Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands 2003; 20. The circuit breaker: RAMSI Intervention, July–December 2003; 21. Security for capacity-building: RAMSI, 2004–5; 22. Back into the streets: the Honiara riots, April 2006; 23. Back to the waters off Fiji: Operation Quickstep, 2006; 24. Monarchy under pressure: responding to civil unrest in Tonga, November 2006; Conclusion.