How Australia helped save Solomon Islands from itself

This is an important, path-breaking book. Wesley was given privileged access to many of the official records of the intervention, including foreign affairs cables, well before their normal public release. He interviewed a broad range of the key political and policy players in both Canberra and Honiara. And he had a good pair of boots, visiting the Solomon Islands on numerous occasions. The result is a forensic study of the intervention: its beginning and end, successes and failures, limitations and legacies. The book becomes the benchmark in writing about the practice of Australian foreign policy in the Pacific - an…