Regan examines the ideal conditions for light international intervention and analyzes the remarkably successful Bougainville peace process.

This volume of the Peacebuilding Compared Project examines the sources of the armed conflict and coup in the Solomon Islands before and after the turn of the millennium.

This volume examines the record of policy making and implementation in Papua New Guinea since independence.

Agriculture dominates the rural economy of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Many aspects of agriculture in PNG are described in this data-rich book.

This book explores the factors behind – and the implications of – the 2006 coup.

This collection gathers together stunning and original accounts of the often surprising ways that people make sense of the AIDS epidemic in various parts of Melanesia.

Politics and State Building in Solomon Islands examines a crisis moment in recent Solomon Islands history.

A Time Bomb Lies Buried discusses the debates which took place in Suva and London as well as the politics and processes which led Fiji to independence in 1970 after 96 years of colonial rule.