The concept of state fragility that has gained prominence within the development and
security agenda focuses very much on deficiencies and shortcomings of governance in so …

The quality of the peace arrived at via liberal peacebuilding approaches has been poor. The
related statebuilding praxis has generally been unable to respond to its critics. What is at …

Joanne Wallis is a lecturer in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National
University. She has previously taught at the University of Cambridge, the University of …

Since the end of the Cold War, agencies responsible for international peacebuilding
operations have explicitly linked the restoration of security, development and peace to …

This study explores current processes of state formation in the Pacific islands, focusing on
Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Bougainville (as an autonomous region of Papua New …

Why is it that states emerging from intervention, peacebuilding and statebuilding over the
last 25 years appear to be'failed by design'? This study explores the interplay of local peace …

Abstract For almost 10 years (1989–1998) the South Pacific island of Bougainville was the
theatre of a large-scale violent conflict, and over the last 12 years Bougainville has …

The concept of hybridity has been used in numerous ways by scholars across a range of
disciplines to generate important analytical and methodological insights. Its most recent …

On 12 December 2012, an Indonesian Air Force helicopter flew 230 miles north from the
coastal city of Merauke to an unfinished dirt airstrip in the middle of the forested territory of …

In the northern Kimberley (WA) Aborigines and Europeans living and working on pastoral
leases have improvised means of staving off, incorporating and generally managing the …