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Article: How Papua New Guinea works.(The Pacific)(Strengthening Our Neighbour: Australia and the Future of Papua New Guinea)(Book Review)
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- Quadrant
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- April 1, 2005
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IN THE WAKE of George Bush's pre-emptive strike in Iraq, the Howard government has embarked on a policy of active intervention in Papua New Guinean affairs, ostensibly to prevent its becoming a future zone of instability, or a "failed state". The reasons for this pessimism are addressed in detail in Hugh White and Elsina Wainwright's Strengthening Our Neighbour: Australia and the Future of Papua New Guinea, published by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. More alarmist views have been expressed in the media by Helen Hughes, of the Centre for Independent Studies.
In White's view, the PNG state is failing because of the country's lack of experience of ...