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Sacred king and warrior chief : the role of the military in Fiji politics
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Sacred king and warrior chief : the role of the military in Fiji politics

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The role of the Fiji military in politics characterized by the 1987, 2000 and 2006 coups has been interpreted through the broad lenses of ethnic tensions and civil-military relations models. This thesis argues that those coups are best understood through an analysis of the interplay between Fijian traditional politics and the predominantly indigenous Fijian military. Like the usurpation of the traditional Sacred King by the Warrior Chief in Fiji's leading pre-colonial state of Bau, the military's role in politics today is an inversion of the...
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2018
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Fiji
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thesis(phd)
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