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Timor Leste

Providing a comprehensive country overview of Southeast Asias newest nation, Timor Leste (East Timor), this book focuses on its cultural and ethno-linguistic diversity, as well as the nations political history from the pre-Portuguese period up to 2009. It 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 Nations popular consultation; and the vote for independence in 2002.

Explaining the structure of the government and its parliamentary system, the book highlights the problems and historical and cultural underpinnings of the challenges Timor Leste faces in building a stable and viable nation. The author presents a synopsis of selected issues that include: language, truth and reconciliation, the Catholic Churchs political activism, internal security problems, the politics of oil, and the fact that violent conflicts, from 2005 to date, have made it necessary for the United Nations peacekeeping forces to return. Thus far, the book argues, Timor Lestes nation building efforts have been hampered by the dynamic interaction of a number of national and international factors.

As the first comprehensive political and cultural history of East Timor to date, this is an important reference resource for students and researchers in the field of Southeast Asian Studies, Anthropology and Political Science.

Andrea Katalin Molnar is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, USA.

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27 Timor Leste

Politics, history, and culture

Andrea Katalin Molnar

Timor Leste

Politics, history, and culture

Andrea Katalin Molnar

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 2010
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2010 Andrea Katalin Molnar

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Molnar, Andrea Katalin, 1964
Timor Leste : politics, history, and culture / Andrea Katalin Molnar.
p. cm. (Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series)
Simultaneously published in the USA and CanadaT.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. East TimorPolitics and government. 2. Political cultureEast
TimorHistory. 3. Political cultureEast Timor. 4. East TimorHistory. 5.

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