#Book chapters #Cuba #Papua New Guinea #Political Economy of Australia #Political Economy of Latin America #Political Economy of the Pacific Islands #Timor Leste

Cuba, Oceania and a ‘Canberra Spring’ (2018)

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Cuban engagement with Timor-Leste and the Pacific islands, particularly through powerful health cooperation programs, has helped reshape regional geopolitics. Most of the key initiatives came from the period when Fidel Castro was head of government, with strong continuity under Raúl […]

#Human Development #Papers and Other Articles #Papua New Guinea #Political Economy of Australia #Political Economy of the Pacific Islands #Solomon Islands #Timor Leste

Australia’s regional interventions: The antinomies of ‘good governance’ (2007)

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This paper examines the antinomies of Australian ‘good governance’: the logical nonsense of regional coerced democracy and carefully tutored economic ‘best practice’. The tension between intervention and independence in the region – particularly with respect to the recent experience of Papua […]

#Human Development #Papers and Other Articles #Papua New Guinea #Political Economy of Australia #Political Economy of the Pacific Islands #Timor Leste

The Howard Government, Australian aid and the consequences (2006)

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In 1997 the Howard Government gave Australia’s foreign aid program a ‘poverty reduction’ focus with a ‘national interest’ link, later developing ‘good governance’ as the principal program theme. This anticipated the IMF and World Bank’s 1999 abandoning of ‘structural adjustment’ […]