East Timor, Australia and Regional Order: Intervention and its Aftermath in Southeast Asia

by James Cotton

Overview

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. All of these developments had an important impact on regional order, not least testing the ASEAN norm of 'non-interference'.Australian complicity in the Indonesian occupation o

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134308248
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/20/2004
Series:	Politics in Asia , #10
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	748 KB

About the Author

James Cotton is a highly respected Australian academic who has written extensively about Asian politics and political thought. A Professor at the University of New South Wales, he is the author of over 150 publications and currently acts as consulting editor of the Australian Journal of International Affairs .

Table of Contents

1. East Timor and Australia: The 25-year policy legacy 2. Australian Relations with Indonesia and the East Timor Issue 3. The Failure of Indonesian Policy 4. The East Timor Intervention, Humanitarian Norms and Regional Order 5. Australia's East Timor Commitment: Causes and consequences 6. Australia's East Timor: The official version and its critique 7. Outcomes: Peacekeeping lessons, security dilemmas, bi-lateral tensions 8. Independent Timor-Leste in a Regional and Global Context