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The French Geopolitical Project in New Caledonia

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  1. School of Social and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia, Australia

    Dennis Rumley (Associate Professor)

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    Dennis Rumley

  2. University of Western Australia and Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia

    Vivian Louis Forbes

  3. Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia

    Christopher Griffin

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Rumley, D. (2006). The French Geopolitical Project in New Caledonia. In: Rumley, D., Forbes, V.L., Griffin, C. (eds) Australia’s Arc of Instability. The GeoJournal Library, vol 82. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3826-7_14

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