Instability in the Pacific Islands: A status report
Firth, Stewart | June 2018
Abstract
The Pacific Islands are highly diverse in political status, population, development, migration prospects, and potential for instability. Resilience is most under challenge in western Melanesia: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu are states-in-formation characterised by extraordinary linguistic and group diversity giving rise to weak consciousness of nationhood. Fiji is different: a weak democracy but a strong state. Many observers see increasing tensions, disputes, and violence over land in Pacific urban areas as people’s traditional connections with rural villages diminish and landlessness becomes more common.
Citation
Firth, Stewart. 2018. Instability in the Pacific Islands: A status report. © Lowy Institute For International Policy. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/8550.Keywords
Urbanization
Urban Services
Urban Projects
Urban Problems
Urban Poverty
Urban Policy
Urban Planning
Urban Infrastructure
Urban Health
Urban Government
Urban Economic Development
Urban Development Finance
Urban Development
Urban Conditions
Urban Communities
Urban Population
Assessing Corporate Governance
Corporate Governance Reform
Governance Models
Urban Plans
Urbanism
Urban agriculture
Economic Development
Rural Urban Migration
Cities
Institutional Framework
Business Management
Corporate Restructuring
Local government
Urban renewal
Urban housing
Urban sociology
Transit systems
Rapid transit
Public transit
Mass transit
Personnel management
Corporate reorganizations
Intergovernmental cooperation
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