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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 […]

#Cuba #Political Economy of Australia #Political Economy of Latin America #Political Economy of the Pacific Islands #Research Articles #Timor Leste

Unlikely partners: Challenges for an Australia-Cuba collaboration in Pacific health (2014)

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In June 2010, at a joint press conference in Perth, the foreign ministers of Australia and Cuba expressed their wish to work together in a range of areas, in particular health aid programs in the Pacific and Caribbean regions (AMFAT […]

#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 […]