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880-01 "French and Australian collaborative research in the humanities and the social sciences in the South Pacific has grown and intensified significantly over the past two decades, beginning with the international symposium Changing Identities in the Pacific at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century held at the Australian Embassy in Paris in 1997 ... In April 2006, another French-government sponsored international symposium, AGORA (Ateliers Gouvernance et Recherche Appliquée) was held at IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement), Noumea, New Caledonia, major themes being governance and economic development, again bringing together Francophone and Anglophone scholars from France and the Pacific region. This was followed in October 2009 by two conjoint Francophone/Anglophone conferences, held at the IRD Centre in Noumea, Stability, Security and Development in Oceania, preceded by AGORA-2, an international conference on Anglophone research in the humanities and the social sciences in the Francophone Pacific, sponsored by the French Government and the Government of New Caledonia. The first of these conferences was sponsored by the French Fonds Pacifique and the State, Society and Governance Program at The Australian National University. An edited selection of presentations from this symposium constitutes the present volume."--Preface

Preliminary; Preface; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Tables and figures; The Pacific Islands Map; Opening Address to 'Politics, Development and Security in Oceania' International Colloquium, Noumea; Introduction; 1. A Changing Oceania; Oceania and its Inheritance; 2. Post-Colonial Political Institutions in the South Pacific Islands: A Survey; 3. The Military in Post-Colonial Fiji; 4. The Political Roles of the Fiji Military: A Brief History of the Chiefs' Warriors, Heroes of the World Wars, Peacekeepers and Dictators; 5. One Party State: The Samoan Experience.

6. Instability and Stability in New Caledonia7. Democracy in French Polynesia; Oceania: Current Needs and Challenge; 8. Stability, Security and Development in Oceania: Whose Definitions?; 9. Millennium Development Goals and the Pacific; 10. Leading the March for Gender Equality? Women Leaders in the Public Services of Samoa and Solomon Islands; 11. Young People Creating the Future Today: Youth Development in the Pacific; 12. Tourism Issues in the Pacific; 13. Rural Development: Back on the Agenda in the Western Pacific?; Oceania and its Wider Setting; 14. Regionalism: Performance and Promise.

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