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Australia’s Arc of Instability The GeoJournal Library Volume 82 Managing Editor: Max Barlow, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Founding Series Editor: Wolf Tietze, Helmstedt, Germany Editorial Board: Paul Claval, France Yehuda Gradus, Israel Sam Ock Park, South Korea Herman van der Wusten, The Netherlands The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume. Australia’s Arc of Instability The Political and Cultural Dynamics of Regional Security Edited by DENNIS RUMLEY University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia VIVIAN LOUIS FORBES University of Western Australia and Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia and CHRISTOPHER GRIFFIN Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia A C.I.P.Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress ISBN-10 1-4020-3825-9 (HB) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3825-9 (HB) ISBN-10 1-4020-3826-7 (e-book) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3826-6 (e-book) Published by Springer, P.O.Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved ©2006 Springer No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed in the Netherlands. For our families TABLE OF CONTENTS Figures ix Tables xi Contributors xiii Preface xix Introduction: Australia and the Arc of Instability 1 Editors 1. The Emergence of Australia’s Arc of Instability 11 Dennis Rumley 2. Australia’s Maritime Space: Conflict and Cooperation 23 Vivian Louis Forbes 3. Australia’s Unauthorized Arrivals: Security Threat or Moral Responsibility? 49 Trudy Hoad 4. Christmas Island: Remote No More 69 Ee Tiang Heng and Vivian Louis Forbes 5. Indonesia and the Arc of Instability 83 Bilveer Singh 6. East Timor in the Arc of Instability 101 James Dunn 7. West Papua: Indonesia’s 26th Province or Australia’s New Neighbor? 111 Keith Suter 8. Discontents of Daily Life in the South Pacific 129 William C. Clarke 9. Papua New Guinea: Disorderly Democracy or Dysfunctional State? 151 Ron May 10. Solomon Islands: Unity in Diversity – the End of a Dream? 171 Trevor H. B. Sofield 11. Nauru in the Arc of Instability: Too Many Degrees of Freedom? 199 Richard Herr and Donald Potter 12. Vanuatu 2001–2004: Political Will and the Containment of Unrest 215 Michael Morgan 13. The French Geopolitical Project in New Caledonia 229 Dennis Rumley 14. Unity, Identity, Nation Building: Challenges to Fijian Leadership 247 Christopher Griffin vii viii TABLEOFCONTENTS 15. Rock of Ages: Tension Underlying Stability in Tonga 271 I. C. Campbell 16. Samoa: Australia’s Pacific Success Story? 287 Penelope Schoeffel and Malama Meleisea Conclusion: Future Prospects and Possibilities 303 Editors Index 319 FIGURES 1 Australia and its region 2 2.1 Australia’s maritime jurisdiction 24 3.1 Illegal entry into Australia by boat: 1995 to July 2003 51 4.1 Christmas Island 71 5.1 Provinces of Indonesia 86 6.1 Timor island 102 7.1 West Papua 112 8.1 Australia’s Neighbours 130 9.1 Provinces of Papua New Guinea 153 10.1 Solomon Islands 172 11.1 Nauru 200 12.1 Vanuatu 216 13.1 New Caledonia 231 13.2 The demographic structure of New Caledonia, 1891–1996 236 14.1 Fiji 250 15.1 Tonga 273 16.1 Samoa 288 17.1 Delimited Maritime Boundaries 313 ix TABLES 1 Arc of instability case studies 3 3.1 Summary of unauthorized boat arrivals 1989–2003 52 3.2 Per capita intake of asylum seekers in selected western 53 countries 1998–1999 3.3 Recognition rates of asylum seekers 1991–1999 53 5.1 Typology of conflicts in Indonesia 87 8.1 Melanesian population change 134 8.2 Melanesian urbanization 135 13.1 Provincial socio-economic indicators 1996 238 xi
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