Abstract
On 24 July 2003, the first wave of a 2,300-strong Australian-led force of police and troops arrived in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. The despatch of this force, which is tasked with restoring law and order, is Canberra's latest response to continuing problems in the 'arc of instability' to Australia's north and east, stretching through Indonesia and the southern Philippines into the southwest Pacific - an area afflicted by poverty, separatism, communal violence and fragile statehood. Canberra's task in the Solomon Islands goes beyond the establishment of security: Australian participation in an extended and probably troublesome process of state-building will also be required.
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