On Checks and Balances Within the Federated States of Micronesia's Presidential System

Petersen, Glenn (2006). "On Checks and Balances Within the Federated States of Micronesia's Presidential System". The Journal of Pacific Studies. 29 (1): 25–49.

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Abstract: DECOLONISATION CAME LATE-WHEN IT CAME AT ALL-TO THE PACIFIC ISLANDS, by which time many aspects of the political struggles for self-determination had already been resolved in Africa and Asia. Thus the transfer of authority to some of the Commonwealth colonies in the Pacific, for instance, came relatively easily and before all were entirely certain that they were ready for it. In other cases, specifically in the United States colonies, the record is quite different. Much of the overseas territory annexed by the US remains under US rule, and the local leaders in the old Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands who pursued self-government in the 1970s faced a daunting task. It was not an armed struggle, to be sure, but it called for much of the same tenacity, courage and patience that characterise more bellicose national liberation movements.