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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783450903321

Autore

Cotton James <1949, >

Titolo

East Timor, Australia and regional order : intervention and its aftermath in Southeast Asia / / James Cotton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-30824-8

1-134-30825-6

0-429-23138-5

1-280-07760-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Collana

Politics in Asia series

Disciplina

959.8704

Soggetti

Peacekeeping forces, Australian - Timor-Leste

Peacekeeping forces - Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste History Autonomy and independence movements

Australia Armed Forces Timor-Leste

Australia Armed Forces Operations other than war

Australia Foreign relations Indonesia

Indonesia Foreign relations Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [164]-181) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; Introduction; East Timor and Australia: the 25-year policy legacy; Australian relations with Indonesia and the East Timor issue; The failure of Indonesian policy; The East Timor intervention, humanitarian norms and regional order; Australia's East Timor commitment: causes and consequences; Australia's East Timor: the official version and its critique; Outcomes: peace-keeping lessons, security dilemmas, bilateral tensions; Conclusion: independent Timor-Leste in a regional and global context; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explains the exceptional nature of the East Timor intervention of 1999, and deals with the background to the trusteeship role of the UN in building the new polity.