Awet Tewelde Weldemichael

Third World Colonialism and Strategies of Liberation

Eritrea and East Timor Compared

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Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how Eritrea and East Timor developed sophisticated strategies to liberate their countries from colonialism, and emphasizes that these insurgencies avoided terrorism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 363
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 639g
• ISBN-13: 9781107031234
• ISBN-10: 1107031230
• Artikelnr.: 36617234

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.