Praeger Security International, 2008. — 221 p. — ISBN: 973-0-313-34841-9. Based on first-person accounts, interviews, declassified documents, and secondary background sources, this book gives readers insight into the significant actions and innovative techniques of the struggle for East Timorese independence from 1999 to 2006. The book begins with a two-chapter historical...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — xxiii + 153 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-62629-1. This book explains how history and traditions have shaped Timorese politics, as well as the role that Indonesia and ASEAN play for the country's future. It tries to understand a complex political system in which both traditional laws and contemporary politics are integrated, and examines the effects of...
Second Edition, Revised and Updated. — Zed Books, 2009. — 340 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84813-012-8. This book tells the story of the traumatic creation of Asia's youngest country, East Timor, which has been struggling to rebuild itself ever since the mayhem of Indonesia's reluctant withdrawal in 1999. The author, one of a mere handful of journalists who refused to be evacuated in the...
Afrontamento, 2016. — 568 p. — ISBN: 978-972-36-1469-5. Quinhentos anos depois da chegada dos portugueses à ilha do "oloroso sândalo", Timor-Leste é hoje uma nação independente. A autodeterminação do que foi o Timor Português pode ter começado com a Revolução dos Cravos em Lisboa, mas o processo em que se inseriu tem raízes mais longínquas no próprio sistema colonial, e...
Leiden: Kitlv Press, 2012. — 479 p. — ISBN: 978-90-6718-378-9. The aim of this book is to fill a historiographical void by studying how local people on Timor fought, traded, negotiated and mixed with foreigners during two eventful centuries, from 1600 to 1800. The subject is not entirely new, for many good historians have taken up their pen and delved into the intricate history...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 246 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-37370-3. This book traces the themes within the East Timor independence movement and notes how these have contibuted to post-independence issues, in particular the political tensions that almost saw East Timor collapse as a viable state in 2006. It concludes with an assessment of the 2007 elections. Conceptual Considerations....
Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2001. — 171 p. — (International Peace Academy Occasional Paper Series). — ISBN: 1-58826-033-X. This unique inside account traces events in East Timor from the negotiations that led to the May 1999 agreements among Indonesia, Portugal, and the United Nations to the mandating of international intervention to check the violence that wracked the...
Routledge, 2009. — 216 p. — (Politics in Asia). — ISBN: 0-415-47807-3. This book highlights how, and why, torture is such a compelling tool for states and other powerful actors. While torture has a short-term use value for perpetrators, it also creates a devastating legacy for victims, their families, and communities. In exposing such repercussions, this book addresses the...
Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2005. — 261 p. — ISBN: 1-74076-131-6. In 1999, East Timor erupted into violence following the popular vote for independence. The world watched in horror as reports of fighting, looting, arson, rape and murder were broadcast across the world. A United Nations force, led by Australians, was deployed to East Timor to establish and maintain peace....
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001. — 291 p. — (Asian voices). — ISBN: 0-7425-0967-2. East Timor is at last, and at terrible human cost, firmly on the road to independence. Exploring the significance of its passage to freedom-for its people, for Asia, and for the world-this multi-voiced volume offers a comprehensive overview of this newest nation's travails and...
Clayton: Monash University Publishing, 2012. — 252 p. — (Monash Asia Series). — ISBN: 978-1-876924-80-5. "One Indonesian soldier was particularly nice to me. He gave me pretty clothes and sweets and used to take me for walks and to his office. Then one Sunday, it was just after my first communion, I was coming out of church with other children when soldiers took me and put me...
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