Papua New Guinea’s Borders: A Retrospective
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Firth, Stewart
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Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University
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Papua New Guinea (PNG) is an ‘artificial state’, that is to say, a state that did not exist either legally or in the minds of people before the arrival of Europeans. The modern country emerged in the 1970s from a long process of the drawing of its borders by foreigners: Dutch, German, British and Australian. The fundamentals of stable nationhood — a strong sense of nationality — were therefore missing at independence and still are.
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Department of Pacific Affairs In Brief series
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