Timor Leste
This book provides a comprehensive country overview of Southeast Asiaas newest nation, Timor Leste (East Timor). This book focuses on its cultural and ethno-linguistic diversity, and its political history from the pre-Portuguese period up to 2009. The book pays particular attention to the historical roots of the current challenges to nation-building by reviewing the Indonesian occupation; guerrilla warfare by the Timorese against the occupiers; the politics leading up to the United Nationsa popular consultation and the vote for independence in 2002. Explaining the structure of the government and its parliamentary system, this book highlights the problems and historical and cultural underpinnings of the challenges Timor Leste faces in building a stable viable nation. The author presents a synopsis of selected issues including: language, truth and reconciliation, the Catholic Churchas political activism, internal security problems, the apolitics of oila, and the fact that violent conflicts, from 2005 to date, have made it necessary for the United Nationas peacekeeping forces to return. Thus far, the book argues, Timor Lesteas nation-building efforts have been hampered by the dynamic interaction of number of national and international factors. The first comprehensive political and cultural history of East Timor to date, this book fills a gap and will be an important single reference resource for students and researchers in the field of Southeast Asian Studies, Anthropology and Political Science.2004 The East Timor Political and Election Observation Project: Final Project Report. www.cartercenter.org/documents/1691.pdf. Therik, G. T. 1995 aWehali: the Four Corner Land; the cosmology and traditions of a Timorese ritual center.a Ph.D.
| Title | : | Timor Leste |
| Author | : | Andrea Katalin Molnar |
| Publisher | : | Routledge - 2009-12-17 |
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