the Changing Role of the Military in Papua New Guinea
| Collection Location | perpustakaan akmil |
| Edition | |
| Call Number | 355 RJM c |
| ISBN/ISSN | 0-7315-1847-0 |
| Author(s) | R J May |
| Subject(s) | papua new guinea |
| Classification | 355 |
| Series Title | GMD | BUKU |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Australian National University |
| Publishing Year | 1993 |
| Publishing Place | Canberra |
| Collation | 21cm;97hal |
| Abstract/Notes | In the decade preceding Papua New Guinea's independence in 1925, there was a lively debate about the possible future role of the defence force. On the one hand there were many among Papua New Guinea's emerging nationalist elite who saw the defence force as a luxury and as a potential threat to an elected goverrunent. On the other hand there had already been created, under the Australian colonial administratio& a well-trained Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDD. In the event, the independent state of Papua New Guinea maintained the PNGDF in essentially the form in which it had been inherited from Australia. The constitution defined its primary role in terms of extemal defence and placed restrictions on its use for intemal security purposes. From the mid-1980s, however, the PNGDF came to play an increasingly active role in internal law and order operations and with the eruption in 1988-89 of an insurgency in the North Solomons Province (Bougainville) the PNGDF became involved, with the police, in a costly and controversial internal s€curity operation. In 1991 changing perceptions of the role of the PNGDF were acknowledged in a reaefinition oi priorities, which recognised the greater significance of internal security relative to the unlikely threat of, and limited capacity to respond to, external aggression. This monograph documents the changes which have taken place in the role of the military in Papua New Guinea and examines relations between civil and military authorities. It argues that a military coup remains a remote possibility. More likely is a gradual movement towards a significantly more controlleil socieq', in which the PNGDB though still subject to civilian control, will play an important role; in which the baditional distinction between police and army will become progressively less sharp; and in which the security forces will become increasingly politicised. Such tendencies are already in evidence. l"l4tl. May is a senior Fellow in the Department of political and social change, Research fthool of pacific stu-dies, Australian National university. Formerly a senior economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia, he was fuom 7972 to l9T7 the last field director of the Australian National University's New Guinea Research unit and the foundation director gf the papua New Guinea Institute of Applied social and Economic Research. He has written extensively on various aspects of politics in Papua New Guinea and in the philippines and is a regular visitor to both countries. |
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