Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers - East Timor, Indonesia, and the World Community

East Timor is at last, and at terrible human cost, firmly on the road to independence. Exploring the significance of its passage to freedom-for its people, for Asia, and for the world-this multi-voiced volume offers a comprehensive overview of this newest nation's travails and triumphs in an international context.

List of contents

Introduction: East Timor, Indonesia, and the World Community
Part I: East Timor: Resistance, Repression and the Road to Independence
Chapter 1: The 500 Year Timorese Funu
Chapter 2: A Long Journey of Resistance: The Origins and Struggle of CNRT
Chapter 3: The Student Movement and the Independence Struggle in East Timor: An Interview
Chapter 4: The Catholic Church and the Independence of East Timor
Part II: Referendum and Independence
Chapter 5: With UNAMET in East Timor-An Historian's Personal View
Chapter 6: The Militia, the Military, and the People of Bobonaro
Chapter 7: Taking the Risk, Paying the Price: East Timorese Vote in Ermera
Chapter 8: Grassroots in the Field-Observing the East Timor Consultation
Part III: East Timor, The United States, and the World Community
Chapter 9: East Timor, the United States, and International Responsibility: "Green Light" for War Crimes
Chapter 10: The East Timor Ordeal: International Law and Its Limits
Chapter 11: United States Support for the Indonesian Military: Congressional Testimony
Chapter 12: East Timor and Asian Security
Part IV: East Timor and Indonesia
Chapter 13: East Timor and the Crisis of the Indonesian Intelligence State
Chapter 14: Big States and Little Independence Movements
Part V: The Future of East Timor
Chapter 15: The Transition of a Small War-Torn Economy into a New Nation: Economic Reconstruction of East Timor
Chapter 16: East Timor Faces the Future

About the author

Edited by Richard Tanter; Mark Selden and Stephen R. Shalom

Summary

East Timor is at last, and at terrible human cost, firmly on the road to independence. Exploring the significance of its passage to freedom-for its people, for Asia, and for the world-this multi-voiced volume offers a comprehensive overview of this newest nation's travails and triumphs in an international context.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Selden, Stephen R. Shalom, Richard Tanter
• Assisted by: Mark Selden (Editor), Selden Mark (Editor), Stephen R Shalom (Editor), Stephen R. Shalom (Editor), Stephen Rosskamm Shalom (Editor), Shalom Stephen R. (Editor), Richard Tanter (Editor), Tanter Richard (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.03.2001
• EAN: 9780742509672
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-0967-2
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 517 g
• Series: War and Peace Library; Asian Voices (Hardcover); War and Peace Library; Asian Voices (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, Political structure & processes, Asian History, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution, Political structure and processes, East Timor, East Timor / Timor-Leste, Asian studies;Southeast Asian studies