Douglas Kammen

Independent Timor-Leste (eBook, ePUB)

Between Coercion and Consent

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This Element explores the primary modes by which rulers have exercised power and shaped political relations in Timor-Leste across four distinct periods. The contrast between coercion under colonial rule and consent expressed through the 1999 referendum on independence exerted a powerful influence on scholarship on Timor-Leste's politics and future. Since the restoration of independence in 2002, however, politics in Timor-Leste are best understood in terms of powerful economic constraints during the first Fretilin government (2002-6), and thereafter, thanks to revenue from the country's petroleum reserves, a ruling strategy based on a wide range of inducements (rather than genuine consent).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108633697
• Artikelnr.: 57077326

Inhaltsangabe

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.