East Timor: beyond independence

Damien Kingsbury, Michael Leach

Monash University Press, 2007 - History - 302 pages

This is the most comprehensive study of East Timor since its independence. The book examines the major themes of development, borders and security, politics and justice, resource and land management, education, and language policy. Though the country was initially lauded as a case study in successful state-building, the crisis of 2006 demonstrated that East Timor had more in common with other post-colonial, post-conflict societies than some of these earlier optimistic assessments. East Timor continues to attract the interest and attention of governments, scholars, development institutions, and aid workers as a society rebuilding itself after almost a quarter of a century of profound trauma and consecutive eras of colonialism. Covering the era from the independence referendum in August 1999 to the political crisis in 2006, and future prospects and challenges, this book is an invaluable resource for understanding the challenges facing the first new nation of the 21st century.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Chapter one Political development: 19
• statebuilding and peacebuilding: 29

About the author

Damien Kingsbury is Senior Lecturer in International Development at Deakin University, Victoria where he focuses on political development in South East Asia generally and Indonesia in particular.

Michael Leach, a founder and the president of Continuum Publishing and president and publisher of Crossroads/Continuum Publishing, is the executive editor of Orbis Books. He lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Bibliographic information

• Title: East Timor: beyond independence; Monash papers on Southeast Asia
• Authors: Damien Kingsbury, Michael Leach
• Editors: Damien Kingsbury, Michael Leach
• Contributors: Damien Kingsbury, Michael Leach
• Publisher: Monash University Press, 2007
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Sep 25, 2008
• ISBN: 1876924497, 9781876924492
• Length: 302 pages
• Subjects: East Timor; East Timor - Politics and government; History / Asia / Southeast Asia; Political Science / General; Political Science / Government / International; Political Science / Political Freedom & Security / General; Timor-Leste; Timor-Leste - Politics and government