Intervention and State-building in the Pacific

State-building intervention in weak, war-torn or failing states has become a priority for the international community. However, the question of how to legitimately engage in the shaping of national governance remains, at the very least, a vexed one. This book explores this key issue through a critical examination of a new model of state-building intervention which has recently emerged in relation to the Pacific 'arc of crisis'. Initiated by the Australian Government in 2003, this 'cooperative intervention' doctrine, built on declared principles of partnership and respect for sovereignty, seems to offer a legitimate way to engage in state-building intervention. Drawing on a group of distinguished Pacific specialists, this book mounts a critique of these claims, showing how international legitimacy does not automatically translate into political legitimacy among those in the affected societies; and how the attempt to legitimise the intervention internationally may actually work against such legitimacy in the recipient state. These insights will be of value to those interested in public policy studies, international law, development studies and international relations.

ISBN 0719076838   Pages 256 ISBN13 9780719076831 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Manchester University Press   Weight (grammes) 540 Imprint Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Format Hardback   Series title New Approaches to Conflict Analysis Publication date 01 May 2008   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress DU29   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 327.0995   Spine width (mm) 30 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate

1		Political legitimacy and state-building intervention in the Pacific by Greg Fry and Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka		1
2		Altered states: the politics of state failure and regional intervention by Terence Wesley-Smith		37
3		Australia's intervention policy: a Melanesian learning curve? by Graeme Dobell		54
4		'Our patch': the war on terror and the new interventionism by Greg Fry		72
5		Australia's new assertiveness in the Pacific: the view from 'the backyard' by Steven Ratuva		87
6		Beyond state-centrism: external solutions and the governance of security in Melanesia by Sinclair Dinnen		102
7		The new regionalism and its contradictions by Stewart Firth		119
8		The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands in global perspective by Iris Wielders		135
9		Intervention and nation-building in Solomon Islands: local responses by Gordon Leua Nanau		149
10		Cooperation between Australia and Papua New Guinea: 'enhanced' or enforced? by Allan Patience		163
11		The Bougainville intervention: political legitimacy and sustainable peace-building by Anthony Regan		184
12		Towards legitimate engagement by Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka and GregFry		209
		References		213
		Index		233

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