East Timor
Subtitle: the price of freedom
By: Damien Kingsbury.
Publisher: Palgrave-Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230606418
Subjects: East Timor -- Politics and government -- 2002-
Description: This book is based on extensive research and regaulr visits to East Timor since 1995. It considers the trials that the people of East Timor have undergone in their long struggle for independence, and issues that have arisen out of independence. This account places East Timor within the context of other post-colonial states, noting the problems that most of them have faced in coming to grips with their new-found freedoms, and how they have managed, or mismanaged, such freedoms. It also traces the themes and issues within the independence movement, noting how these have contibuted to post-indepe ...
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.