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The positive external security circumstances of the island states have permitted their governments to define security broadly. Yet though free in recent decades of the threat or actuality of intra-regional armed conflict, as well as of serious direct external threats, the region has had no shortage of internal tensions and conflicts.
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Henningham, S. (1995). Decolonisation, Indigenous Rights and Internal Conflicts. In: The Pacific Island States. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372436_4
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