Papua New Guinea’s Borders: A Retrospective
| dc.contributor.author | Firth, Stewart | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-15T04:40:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-10-15T04:40:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-10-14 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2209-9557 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733789642 | |
| dc.publisher | Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Department of Pacific Affairs In Brief series | |
| dc.rights | Author retains copyright | |
| dc.source | Department of Pacific Affairs In Brief series | |
| dc.subject | Paoua New Guinea | |
| dc.subject | Borders | |
| dc.title | Papua New Guinea’s Borders: A Retrospective | |
| dc.type | Journal article | |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 27 | |
| local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 2 | |
| local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 1 | |
| local.identifier.doi | 10.25911/HVHP-XB71 | |
| local.identifier.essn | 2209-9549 | |
| local.mintdoi | mint | |
| local.publisher.url | https://bellschool.anu.edu.au/dpa | |
| local.type.status | Published Version | |
| publicationvolume.volumeNumber | 2025 |