"Failed state" and the war on terror: Intervention in Solomon Islands

Asia Pacific Issues

Volumn , Issue 72, 2004, Pages 1-8

  Kabutaulaka, Tarcisius Tara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN POLICY; MILITARY INTERVENTION; PEACEKEEPING; TERRORISM;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOLOMON ISLANDS [(ISG) MELANESIA];

EID: 1942467228     PISSN: 15220966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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