How Australia helped save Solomon Islands from itself
Michael Wesley was given privileged access to many of the official records of the intervention. The result is a forensic study of its beginning and end, successes and failures, limitations and legacies.
At first glance, 2003 exemplifies classic case studies of two different traditions in the history of Australian foreign and defence policy.
The Howard government’s commitment to the US-led invasion of Iraq represented the expeditionary impulse, supporting its great power ally at long distance from Australian shores.
James CurranInternational editorJames Curran is The Australian Financial Review’s International Editor and professor of modern history at Sydney University.
