Michael Leach

Nation-Building and National Identity in Timor-Leste

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the key challenges of national building in Timor-Leste in the ten years since the 1999 independence referendum. This book addresses key issues in the development and reconstruction of an independent East Timor, highlighting its successes and its failures, as well as a set of unresolved issues confronting the state.

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This book examines the history of nation-building and national identity in Timor-Leste, and the evolution of a collective identity through two consecutive colonial occupations, and into the post-independence era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780415582131
• ISBN-10: 041558213X
• Artikelnr.: 31571073

Autorenporträt

Michael Leach is Professor in Politics at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He has researched and published widely on the politics and history of Timor-Leste, and is a co-founder of the Timor-Leste Studies Association.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Indigenous Societies and the Early Colonial Era
3. The Intensification of Colonial Power
4. Decolonisation and the Rise of East Timorese Political Parties 1974-5
5. Forced Integration and the Reorganisation of the Nation 1976-1989
6. The 1990s: The CNRT and the Clandestine Resistance
7. Untaet and the Constitutional Assembly 1999-2002
8. Nation-Building Challenges After Independence
9. The Political-Military Crisis: East and West
10. 2007-2012: Divisions in the Elite
11. 2013-2015: The Return of National Unity
12. Conclusion