Why the Painful Birth of a New Pacific Nation Is Exciting Major Power Competition

Commentary Why is the presumably imminent—but long-delayed and hard-fought-for—independence of a small South Pacific autonomous region, Bougainville, fraught with resistance, superpower competition, and potential further unrest? Bougainville is likely to become a sovereign, independent state in 2027, and if the Parliament of Papua New Guinea (PNG) fails to ratify that independence, then violence is likely […]