Mutinies, coups and military interventionism: Papua New Guinea and South-East Asia in comparison

Mietzner, Marcus; Farrelly, Nicholas

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Mutinies, coups and military interventionism: Papua New Guinea and South-East Asia in comparison

Date

2013

Authors

Mietzner, Marcus

Farrelly, Nicholas

Publisher

Carfax Publishing, Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

Scholars of civil-military relations have long been puzzled by the fact that despite a series of mutinies, Papua New Guinea (PNG) has never seen a full-blown military takeover. Indeed, when PNG became independent in the early 1970s, some veteran PNG watch