Third World Colonialism and Strategies of Liberation - Eritrea and East Timor Compared

Informationen zum Autor Awet Tewelde Weldemichael is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Kentucky. He is also Fernand Braudel Fellow at the French Humanities Foundation, University of Paris Diderot. He has worked as a political affairs officer for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in East Timor and as a long-term election observer with the Carter Center mission in Sudan. Klappentext This book shows how Eritrea and East Timor developed sophisticated strategies to liberate their countries from colonialism, and emphasizes that these insurgencies avoided terrorism. Zusammenfassung This book shows how Eritrea and East Timor developed sophisticated strategies to liberate their countries from colonialism! and emphasizes that these insurgencies avoided terrorism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Swaggering empires and defiant 'new provinces'; 2. Bittersweet replicas of foreign experiences and reform; 3. Toward reorganization and reorientation: Eritrean fragmentation and East Timorese near-defeat; 4. Victims of their own success: the revitalized nationalist movements and their challenges; 5. Eritrean and East Timorese diplomacy of liberation; 6. To Asmara through Addis Ababa and Dili via Jakarta; 7. Winning insurgencies and counterinsurgencies in a changing global order; 8. The promise and quandary of 'infusing fresh blood' and 'inaugurating new politics'; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Awet Tewelde Weldemichael, Awet Tewelde (University of Kentucky Weldemichael, Awet Tewelde (University of Kentucky) Weldemichael, WELDEMICHAEL AWET TEWELDE
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2012
• EAN: 9781107031234
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03123-4
• No. of pages: 363
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Eritrea, History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, International Relations, Political activism, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Asian History, African History, National liberation and independence, East Timor / Timor-Leste