Helpem Fren : Australia and the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands 2003â"2017 - Michael Wesley

Helpem Fren

Australia and the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands 2003â"2017

By: Michael Wesley

Paperback | 7 March 2023

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History, geopolitics, blood feuds and the ingredients of a successful Australian armed intervention.

In 2003 Australia conceived, financed and led a Pacific-wide intervention into Solomon Islands to prevent the collapse of that state. The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) was to remain there for fourteen years, costing over $2 billion and involving thousands of soldiers, police and public servants from Australia and across the Pacific. It was remarkably successful in an age of disastrous interventions. And yet, by the time it was withdrawn, RAMSI had largely vanished from the Australian public's mind.

Helpem Fren is the first comprehensive history of Australia and the RAMSI intervention. Drawing on still-classified official documents and over thirty interviews, it records the preconditions, motivations and dynamics of RAMSI between 2003 and 2017. Providing an intimate look at the challenges of interventions and development assistance generally, Helpem Fren is also a portrait of the personalities involved and the complex interactions between two systems that couldn't be more different in culture, wealth, size and capacity.

As Australia confronts the most challenging environment in the Pacific for seventy years, Helpem Fren offers readers a deeper understanding of the recent history of Australia's involvement with Solomon Islands and the Pacific.

About the Author

Michael Wesley is a leading scholar on Australian foreign policy and Australia's relations with its region. He has previously published Making Australian Foreign Policy (with Allan Gyngell) and the The Howard Paradox- Australian Diplomacy in Asia 1996-2006. His 2011 book, There Goes the Neighbourhood- Australia and the Rise of Asia won the John Button Prize for best writing on Australian public policy, and was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary awards.

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