Security - new material (24)
01 January 2007
Fiji, Iraq and Pacific Island security, Nic Maclellan. Race and Class, Vol. 48 no. 3 (January-March) 2007, pp.47-62. Noting that the war in Iraq has reverberations that reach way beyond the Middle East, this article considers the role of private and military security companies in the Pacific region and Fiji: "A whole industry has grown up, in which private military and security corporations plug the gaps that the armed forces of the US and Britain cannot fill, providing back-up services, security and logistics." Maclellan goes on to warn that "this trend to outsourcing core national government functions of defence and security has boomeranged back on the Pacific nations themselves, potentially adding to destabilisation and insecurity in the region.” Available from IRR, 2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS.