http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/4380/tanya-vitusagavulu Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:19:23 -0400 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:19:23 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1603/trouble-in-paradise-fijis-proclivity-to-coups By Tanya Vitusagavulu - Widely known as a tropical tourist destination, the Fiji Islands have been gripped by political turmoil and have had four coups in a span of 20 years. Various factors such as tradition versus modernity, military-civilian relations, failure of constitutionality, nationalism and power struggle are identified in this paper as factors of Fiji's political instability. This paper examines how socio-economic and cultural differences between the country's two major races, Fijians and Indians, have been the underlying cause of Fiji's proclivity to coups from 1987-2006. Along with other factors, the socioeconomic... Fri, 31 May 2013 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1603/trouble-in-paradise-fijis-proclivity-to-coups