Independent Timor-Leste - Between Coercion and Consent

Explores the primary modes by which rulers have exercised power and shaped political relations in Timor-Leste.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. A violent past; 3. The impossible dream: East Timor under the UN; 4. Independence with constraints; 5. Timor's purchase; 6. Hitching-post; 7. Future research agendas.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Kammen, Douglas (National University of Singapore) Kammen, Kammen Douglas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781108457583
• ISBN: 978-1-108-45758-3
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Politics and Socie; Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, 21st Century, Colonialism & imperialism, Political structure & processes, Colonialism and imperialism, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Political structure and processes, National liberation and independence, East Timor, East Timor / Timor-Leste