V. N. TIMOSHENKO. THE SOUTH PACIFIC REGION ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE XXI CENTURY. PROBLEMY VNESHNOI POLITIKI I BEZOPASNOSTI [PROBLEMS OF FOREIGN POLICY AND SECURITY], Khabarovsk: DVGGU Publishing HOUSE, 2009, 379 p. The reviewed work fills the gap that has been formed in domestic research on this issue. The last books of Soviet historians that studied the foreign policy of the countries of the South Pacific region-Australia, New Zealand, and the island states of Oceania - were published in the 1970s and 1980s, and some articles that appeared later do not give a complete picture of the system of international relations in the region and the foreign policy of the countries that are part of in the South, at the end of the last and beginning of the present centuries. V. N. Timoshenko combined in one monograph an idea of the modern foreign and defense policy of both the leading countries of the region (Australia, New Zealand) and the independent island states of Oceania. This approach, which allowed the author to make the transition from analyzing the foreign policy activities of individual countries to studying the modern system of international relations in the South Caucasus, revealed the scientific novelty of the peer-reviewed work. The author bases his research on a wide range of sources, including official documents, statements of politicians, press materials, etc. He has studied and critically evaluated the works of domestic and foreign historians on the foreign policy of the Southern European countries, which allowed him to draw his own well-founded conclusions and conclusions that give the monograph theoretical and methodological significance. The cognitive value of the work lies in the fact that it analyzes an important stage in the development of the modern system of international relations in the South, when as a result of the anti-nuclear policy of New Zealand, the trilateral defense alliance of Australia, New Zealand and the United States (ANZUS) turned into ... Read more