REVIEW: Making sense of the Solomon Islands upheaval

Review of The Manipulation of Custom: From uprising to Intervention in the Solomon Islands, by Jon Fraenkel

Abstract

Review of The Manipulation of Custom: From uprising to Intervention in the Solomon Islands, by Jon Fraenkel

Dr Jon Fraenkel, a senior research fellow at the University of the South Pacific's Governance and Development Institute, has produced a solid and readable account of the [Solomon Island] uprising. He has more than an academic, however, and his own journalism, particularly with the London-based Economist was the among the scraps of evidence that were used to build up Canberra's intervention justification.