The trouble with RAMSI: Reexamining the roots of conflict in Solomon Islands

Contemporary Pacific

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 409-441

  Hameiri, Shahar ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conflict; Failed state; Governance; Patronage; RAMSI; Solomon Islands; State capacity

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; PATRON-CLIENT RELATIONS; PEACE PROCESS; POLITICAL INSTABILITY; STATE BUILDING;

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

EID: 34250738791     PISSN: 1043898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cp.2007.0052     Document Type: Article

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