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Prologue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2020

Cait Storr
Cait Storr
Affiliation:
University of Technology Sydney
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The Prologue begins with the factors the Nauru Constitutional Review Commission Report of 2007 identified as responsible for the Republic’s contemporary economic and political precarity. In a UNDP-funded constitutional referendum in 2010, the Nauruan community overwhelmingly rejected proposed amendments to Nauru’s 1968 Constitution that were designed to address those factors. The Prologue describes the author’s involvement in the referendum campaign, and introduces the history of Australian, British and German imperial interventions in the Pacific region, and Australia’s use of Nauru as a site for offshore processing of asylum seekers who arrive in Australian waters by sea.

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United Nations Development Programmeconstitutional reviewinternational orderAustralian imperialism
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International Status in the Shadow of Empire
Nauru and the Histories of International Law
 , pp. 1 - 8
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Prologue
  • Cait Storr, University of Technology Sydney
  • Book: International Status in the Shadow of Empire
  • Online publication: 20 August 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108682602.001
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  • Prologue
  • Cait Storr, University of Technology Sydney
  • Book: International Status in the Shadow of Empire
  • Online publication: 20 August 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108682602.001
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  • Prologue
  • Cait Storr, University of Technology Sydney
  • Book: International Status in the Shadow of Empire
  • Online publication: 20 August 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108682602.001
Available formats
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