The Good Neighbour

Part I. Pacific War to the Bougainville Crisis, 1942–90:
1. Setting the scene: Australian security and aid policies in the Pacific Islands, 1942–90
2. Standing by Vanuatu in 1980 and 1988
3. Testing Australian peacemaking: Fiji coups, 1987
4. Intervention? The beginnings of the Bougainville crisis, 1989
Part II. The Bougainville Crisis, 1990–7:
5. Facilitating Tok Tok, 1990–3
6. Giving peace a chance: Australian peacemaking and peacekeeping in 1994
7. Enough is enough: from Cairns to Sandline, 1995–7
Part III. Australian Intervention in Bougainville:
8. New Zealand joins in: designing and deploying the Truce Monitoring Group in 1997
9. Smiling and waving: establishing truce monitoring, December 1997–February 1998
10. Selling Lincoln: finding a peace to keep, January–April 1998
11. Setting precedents: establishing peace-monitoring operations in 1998
12. Getting the political focus right: PMG contributions to negotiations in 1999
13. Trying to leave: reducing ADF support to the PMG, October 1999–May 2001
14. From offstage to centre stage: securing the guns, part 1:
1998–2002
15. Trying to finish the job: securing guns, part 2: June 2002–June 2003
16. Mission accomplished? Peacemaking and peacekeeping in Bougainville, 1988–2003
Part IV. Australia's Interventions in Solomon Islands:
17. From peacemaking to peacekeeping: Australia and the troubled Solomon Islands, 1997–2000
18. A futile exercise: the International Peace Monitoring Team in Solomon Islands, 2000–2
19. The path to intervention: Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands 2003
20. The circuit breaker: RAMSI Intervention, July–December 2003
21. Security for capacity-building: RAMSI, 2004–5
22. Back into the streets: the Honiara riots, April 2006
23. Back to the waters off Fiji: Operation Quickstep, 2006
24. Monarchy under pressure: responding to civil unrest in Tonga, November 2006
Conclusion.