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Critical Asian Studies, 1987
The first Fiji coup of 14 May 1987 sought to reinstall a feudal aristocracy which had been severely threatened by a narrow defeat in the elections of the previous month.
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The first Fiji coup of 14 May 1987 sought to reinstall a feudal aristocracy which had been severely threatened by a narrow defeat in the elections of the previous month.
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Out of Fiji . .. A Perspective on Migration after the Coups
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 1989The impact of the military coup detat that occurred in Fiji in May 1987 on emigration particularly of the population of Indian origin is examined. "The review commences with a brief statement about the magnitude of net migration losses of Fijis population since the early 1960s.
Richard Bedford
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Fiji Indians and Political Discourse in Fiji: from the Pacific Romance to the Coups
Journal of Historical Sociology, 1988Abstract Why did Fiji Indian political rhetoric shift, at Fiji's independence, from Gandhian political grievance to nation, development and harmony? The Indians were brought to Fiji as plantation labor in order to protect the indigenous Fijians from wage labor.
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An analysis of the causes of the Fiji military coups [PDF]
, 1992 The Fiji military coups of 1987 are about a Fijian chiefly elite and their supporters who were too reluctant to relinquish their power and privileges. Seventeen years had been a long time in office for the Alliance government. Those who patronised and were patronised by the Alliance government feared change as the Bavadra government had promised a ...
Varma, Dipak Singh
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Tourism Management, 2005 Did Rabuka's military coups have a permanent effect or a transitory effect on tourist expenditure in Fiji : evidence from Vogelsang's structural break ...
Paresh Kumar Narayan
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The Coups in Retrospect: The New Political Geography of Fiji
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 1989John Overton, R Gérard Ward
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Race, politics, and the coup in Fiji
Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 1987The military coup that took place in Fiji on 14 May 1987 is generally seen as having been prompted largely by racial tensions in terms of a deepening conflict between “Indian” political ambitions a...
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Conflict Prevention in the Commonwealth: The 2000 Fiji Coup
International Negotiation, 2012Abstract The Republic of Fiji experienced three armed coups in less than twenty years – 1987, 2000, and again in 2006 – symptoms of inter-communal tensions in the country and a political, economic and social system unable to manage them. The Commonwealth, through the good offices of its Secretary-General, was the lead international actor in responding
Craig Collins, Jon Fraenkel
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Cooking the Goose: Fiji's Coup Culture Contextualised
The Round Table, 2012Abstract In the 40 years since Fiji became independent, there has been no shortage of perspectives from which to frame its development: its colonial past, its dual status as a Third World and Pacific island state, and, most pervasively perhaps, race conflict.
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