Title: Reluctant Saviour
Description: "Over many years successive Australian governments, supported by an influential network of pro-Jakarta lobbyists, worked assiduously to preserve Indonesian sovereignty over East Timor. Yet in September 1999 the Howard government took the lead in assembling a multinational peacekeeping force to guarantee East Timor's independence. Reluctant Saviour explains why."--Jacket.
Subjects: Armed Forces, Autonomy and independence movements, East Timor, Foreign relations, History, Operations other than war, Peacekeeping forces, Australian Peacekeeping forces, Timor-Leste, Politics, Asian studies, Australian studies, Australia, politics and government, Australia, foreign relations
Places: Australia, East Timor, Indonesia