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		<title>Analytic Brief: Fiji&#8217;s strategic pivot.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2016/01/27/fijis-strategic-pivot/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2016 05:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week Fiji took delivery of a shipment of Russian weapons that were &#8220;donated&#8221; by Russia pursuant to a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in February 2015. The Fijians say that the weapons are needed by Fijian peacekeepers in places like the Middle East because what they currently have in their inventory are obsolete. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Analytic Brief: Could Fiji emulate Singapore?</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2014/09/26/could-fiji-emulate-singapore/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 03:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fiji represents the latest iteration of a &#8220;top-down&#8221; transition from authoritarian to elected civilian rule. &#8220;Top down&#8221; regime transitions are those where the outgoing authoritarian regime controls the process by which elected government is installed, including the timing and terms of elections. The process is usually marked by two things: limitations on the ability of ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Futures Forecast: A &#8220;Guarded&#8221; Democracy in Fiji.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2013/01/17/futures-forecast-a-guarded-democracy-in-fiji/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Futures Forecast: A &#8220;Guarded&#8221; Democracy in Fiji. Paul G. Buchanan Change of Guard Ceremony, Government House, Suva. Republic of Fiji Military Forces hand over guardship to Republic of Fiji Police. Photo: Republic of Fiji Military Forces (http://www.rfmf.mil.fj/news/Change%20of%20Guards.html) . &#160; Revelations that the Fijian military-bureaucratic regime has rejected important aspects of the draft constitution submitted by ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Selwyn Manning Interviews Coalition For Democracy In Fiji&#8217;s Nik Naidu on Fiji&#8217;s Slow Walk Back To Democracy</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/08/07/selwyn-manning-interviews-coalition-for-democracy-in-fijis-nik-naidu-on-fijis-slow-walk-back-to-democracy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fiji: Selwyn Manning Interviews Coalition For Democracy In Fiji&#8217;s Nik Naidu on Fiji&#8217;s Slow Walk Back To Democracy This Week: Selwyn Manning interviews Nik Naidu on Fiji&#8217;s Slow Walk Back To Democracy &#8211; Beatson Interview, Triangle TV, August 6 2012. Nothing is ever very predictable about the political situation in Fiji – except its unpredictability. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dispatch: The Weird Twist Underlying the NZSIS Raid on Fiji’s Pro-Democracy Movement</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/07/19/dispatch-the-weird-twist-underlying-the-nzsis-raid-on-fijis-pro-democracy-movement/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 04:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Weird Twist Underlying the NZSIS Raid on Fiji’s Pro-Democracy Movement Dispatch &#8211; By Selwyn Manning. Yesterday veteran Pacific journalist Mike Field broke this story where New Zealand’s Security Intelligence Service raided a Mt Albert dairy (grocery) owned by former Fiji Cabinet minister Rejesh Singh. A SIS officer, accompanied by three police officers – presumably ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Analytic Brief: Managing Policy Fade</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Analytic Brief: Managing Policy Fade* From time to time 36th Parallel Assessments offers analytic briefs on subjects of diplomatic, geopolitical and strategic interest. This week’s topic is policy fade. Analysis &#8211; By Paul G. Buchanan. Deployment of Fijian soldiers and police as UN peacekeepers after the 2006 military coup in that country is a good ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fiji&#8217;s Military Regime Deploys More Personnel To UN Ops Than Australia, Canada, New Zealand Combined</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/07/13/fijis-military-regime-deploys-more-personnel-to-un-ops-than-australia-canada-new-zealand-combined/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fiji&#8217;s Military Regime Deploys More Personnel To UN Ops Than Australia, Canada, New Zealand Combined Dispatch/Forecast &#8211; by Selwyn Manning. Since the 2006 Fiji coup Commodore Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama&#8217;s military-led government has remained fully engaged with the United Nations while incrementally increasing the number of troops and police it contributes to UN peacekeeping operations to ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Status of Forces Report Part 2: Military Professionalism in the South Pacific.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/05/25/status-of-forces-report-part-2-military-professionalism-in-the-south-pacific/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 03:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Status of Forces Report Part 2: Military Professionalism in the South Pacific. 36th Parallel Assessment Series – By Paul G. Buchanan Introduction: In Part One of the the Status of Forces series, 36th Parallel Assessments offered an overview of typologies of military forces and civil-military relations. Designed as an introduction to the subject for readers ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – May 07 2012</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/05/07/36th-parallel-regional-news-round-up-may-07-2012/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 10:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – May 07 2012 36th Parallel Assessments [RSSjb feed=&#8221;feed://36th-parallel.com/feed/&#8221; num=&#8221;5&#8243; pubdate=&#8221;true&#8221; excerpt=&#8221;false&#8221; charex=&#8221;250&#8243; list=&#8221;ul&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; pubauthor=&#8221;false&#8221;] France/French Polynesia: Left-wing candidate François Hollande has defeated incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in Sunday&#8217;s runoff, exit polls say, becoming the first Socialist to win a presidential election since François Mitterrand in 1988. According to Ipsos polling ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: Why Australia &#038; NZ Have Taken A Softly Approach Over Papua New Guinea&#8217;s Crisis</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/05/04/interview-why-australia-nz-have-taken-a-softly-approach-over-papua-new-guineas-crisis/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 23:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: Glenn Williams IVs Selwyn Manning on Why Australia &#038; NZ Have Taken A Softly Approach Over Papua New Guinea&#8217;s Crisis Introduction: As Papua New Guinea struggles to maintain order in the face of two clashing political factions, its two southern neighbors Australia and New Zealand are compelled to tread a soft diplomatic line rather ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – May 03 2012</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 06:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – May 03 2012 36th Parallel Assessments [RSSjb feed=&#8221;feed://36th-parallel.com/feed/&#8221; num=&#8221;5&#8243; pubdate=&#8221;true&#8221; excerpt=&#8221;false&#8221; charex=&#8221;250&#8243; list=&#8221;ul&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; pubauthor=&#8221;false&#8221;] Australia/New Zealand/Papua New Guinea: &#8211; Analysis by Selwyn Manning &#8211; As Papua New Guinea struggles to maintain order in the face of two clashing political factions, its two southern neighbors Australia and New Zealand are ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Papua New Guinea Crisis – Australia and New Zealand&#8217;s Challenge</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 01:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Papua New Guinea Crisis – Australia and New Zealand&#8217;s Challenge Weekly Analysis &#8211; By Selwyn Manning. As Papua New Guinea struggles to maintain order in the face of two clashing political factions, its two southern neighbors Australia and New Zealand are compelled to tread a soft diplomatic line rather than risk destroying progressive rapprochement with ]]></description>
		
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		<title>36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 30 2012</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 30 2012 36th Parallel Assessments [RSSjb feed=&#8221;feed://36th-parallel.com/feed/&#8221; num=&#8221;5&#8243; pubdate=&#8221;true&#8221; excerpt=&#8221;false&#8221; charex=&#8221;250&#8243; list=&#8221;ul&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; pubauthor=&#8221;false&#8221;] Fiji: Fiji’s Acting Prime Minister and Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum has asked the Pacific Islands Forum Ministerial Contact Group to support the Bainimarama Government&#8217;s efforts to take the country to the 2014 general election. He ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 27 2012</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 04:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 27 2012 36th Parallel Assessments [RSSjb feed=&#8221;feed://36th-parallel.com/feed/&#8221; num=&#8221;5&#8243; pubdate=&#8221;true&#8221; excerpt=&#8221;false&#8221; charex=&#8221;250&#8243; list=&#8221;ul&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; pubauthor=&#8221;false&#8221;] Pacific Region: Analysis &#8211; By economist Professor Wadan Narsey &#8211; If this was a news release by a geologist, alarm bells would be ringing around the Pacific and international scientific community. But retitle it “Pacific ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 26 2012</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[36th Parallel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 26 2012 36th Parallel Assessments [RSSjb feed=&#8221;feed://36th-parallel.com/feed/&#8221; num=&#8221;5&#8243; pubdate=&#8221;true&#8221; excerpt=&#8221;false&#8221; charex=&#8221;250&#8243; list=&#8221;ul&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; pubauthor=&#8221;false&#8221;] Australia/Solomon Islands/RAMSI: Australia&#8217;s Defence Minister Stephen Smith says an exit plan is being developed for the defence contingent of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands. Smith is in Honiara and met the Solomons Prime ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 22 2012</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/04/22/36th-parallel-regional-news-round-up-april-22-2012/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 02:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 22 2012 36th Parallel Assessments [RSSjb feed=&#8221;feed://36th-parallel.com/feed/&#8221; num=&#8221;5&#8243; pubdate=&#8221;true&#8221; excerpt=&#8221;false&#8221; charex=&#8221;250&#8243; list=&#8221;ul&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; pubauthor=&#8221;false&#8221;] Papua New Guinea: 36th Parallel Analysis &#038; Forecast &#8211; Paul Buchanan writes the ongoing political crisis in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is what is known in comparative politics as an “impossible game:” all major political ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Weekly Analysis: Is Papua New Guinea A Failing State?</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/04/22/weekly-analysis-is-papua-new-guinea-a-failing-state/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Weekly Analysis: Is Papua New Guinea A Failing State? Analysis and Forecast &#8211; by Paul G. Buchanan. The ongoing political crisis in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is what is known in comparative politics as an &#8220;impossible game:&#8221; all major political actors have the ability to veto their opponent&#8217;s projects but none have the ability to ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 18 2012</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/04/18/36th-parallel-regional-news-round-up-april-18-2012/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 18 2012 36th Parallel Assessments [RSSjb feed=&#8221;feed://36th-parallel.com/feed/&#8221; num=&#8221;5&#8243; pubdate=&#8221;true&#8221; excerpt=&#8221;false&#8221; charex=&#8221;250&#8243; list=&#8221;ul&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; pubauthor=&#8221;false&#8221;] Timor Leste: Report – By Michael Bachelard in Dili &#8211; A military man recommended by the United Nations for criminal prosecution six years ago seems almost certain to become the new president of East Timor. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 17 2012</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/04/17/36th-parallel-regional-news-round-up-april-17-2012/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[36th-Parallel Regional News Round-Up – April 17 2012 36th Parallel Assessments [RSSjb feed=&#8221;feed://36th-parallel.com/feed/&#8221; num=&#8221;5&#8243; pubdate=&#8221;true&#8221; excerpt=&#8221;false&#8221; charex=&#8221;250&#8243; list=&#8221;ul&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; pubauthor=&#8221;false&#8221;] 36th Parallel Security Assessment &#8211; by Paul Buchanan: Announcement that the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) has approved a Fijian proposal to create an armed Legion as a regional rapid response unit raises the issue of ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Interview: Pacific Geopolitics Reshapes As Melanesians Assert Security Autonomy</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2012/04/13/interview-pacific-geopolitics-reshapes-as-melanesians-assert-security-autonomy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Selwyn Manning]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview: Pacific Geopolitics Reshapes As Melanesians Assert Security Autonomy Glenn Williams interviews 36th-Parallel.com&#8217;s Selwyn Manning on why Melanesian leaders have asserted from a security sense an independence and autonomy that renders Australia and New Zealand almost redundant in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu. Melanesia’s solidarity-move counters what can be perceived as a weak ]]></description>
		
		
		
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