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Book Synopsis East Timor, Australia and Regional Order by : James Cotton
Download or read book East Timor, Australia and Regional Order written by James Cotton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-05-20 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book East Timor Intervention written by and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's involvement in the liberation of East Timor in 1999 was the most decisive demonstration of Australian influence in the region since World War II and the largest military contribution since the Vietnam War. Australian diplomacy and leadership shaped the events that led to the birth of Asia's newest nation. East Timor Intervention looks at the crisis through the prism of key participants and observers on the ground and abroad, including Indonesia's martial law commander Kiki Syahnakri defending his record, the country's first president Xanana Gusmo on the resolution and poise of Timor's resistance fighters, Australia's Chief of Defence Force Chris Barrie on cobbling the force together, commander of the International Force Peter Cosgrove on the operation, and key policy adviser Hugh White on Canberra's policy contortions in the lead-up to the intervention. This impressive collection includes significant new perspectives on Southeast Asian security affairs and the role Australia can play in regional security and stability.
Book Synopsis East Timor, Australia and Regional Order by : James Cotton
Download or read book East Timor, Australia and Regional Order written by James Cotton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-05-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of East Timor was a major factor in the persistence of Indonesian rule in the territory which was maintained for twenty-five years despite international censure and which required an unremitting campaign against the independence movement. This work reviews the reasons for that history of complicity, and explains the extraordinary change of policy that led ultimately to the occupation of the territory by the Australian-led INTERFET coalition.
Book Synopsis Crisis Policymaking by : David Connery
Download or read book Crisis Policymaking written by David Connery and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Timor's violent transition to independence, which began early in 1999, presented the Australian Government with a significant foreign policy crisis. This crisis was not sudden, totally unexpected or ultimately threatening to Australia's survival. But the crisis consumed the attention of Australian leaders, saw significant national and international resources employed, and led to the largest operational deployment for the Australian Defence Force since the Vietnam War. This crisis also created a significant rupture in the hitherto carefully-managed relationships between Australia and its important neighbor, Indonesia. The events of September 1999 ultimately led to the birth of a new nation and the deaths of many people who might have otherwise expected to enjoy that independence. In this major study, David Connery examines how the Australian Government - at the political and bureaucratic levels - developed and managed national security policy in the face of this crisis. The events, and the policymaking processes that both led and followed, are reconstructed using sixty interviews with key participants. This study identifies certain characteristics of crisis policymaking in Australia that include a dominant executive, secrecy, external actors and complexity.
Book Synopsis East Timor Intervention by : John Blaxland
Download or read book East Timor Intervention written by John Blaxland and published by Mup Academic. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's involvement in the liberation of East Timor in 1999 was the most decisive demonstration of Australian influence in the region since World War II and the largest military contribution since the Vietnam War. Australian diplomacy and leadership shaped the events that led to the birth of Asia's newest nation. East Timor Intervention looks at the crisis through the prism of key participants and observers on the ground and abroad, including Indonesia's martial law commander Kiki Syahnakri defending his record, the country's first president Xanana Gusm o on the resolution and poise of Timor's resistance fighters, Australia's Chief of Defence Force Chris Barrie on cobbling the force together, commander of the International Force Peter Cosgrove on the operation, and key policy adviser Hugh White on Canberra's policy contortions in the lead-up to the intervention. This impressive collection includes significant new perspectives on Southeast Asian security affairs and the role Australia can play in regional security and stability.
Book Synopsis Windows of Opportunity by : Angus L. Porter
Download or read book Windows of Opportunity written by Angus L. Porter and published by . This book was released on 2017-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis ASEAN Resistance to Sovereignty Violation by : Southgate, Laura
Download or read book ASEAN Resistance to Sovereignty Violation written by Southgate, Laura and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-05-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining how the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) has responded to external threats over the past 50 years, this book provides a compelling account of regional state actions and foreign policy in the face of potential sovereignty violation. The author draws on a large amount of previously unanalysed material, including declassified government documents and WikiLeaks cables, to examine four key cases since 1975. Taking into account state interests and the role of external powers, the author develops the ‘vanguard state theory’ to explain ASEAN state responses to sovereignty violation, which, it is argued, has universal applicability and explanatory power.
Download or read book Free East Timor written by Jim Aubrey and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book is a testimony for the historical record, to document the actions of some of those who did everything they could to help East Timor - average everyday people ashamed of their Government's indecent obsession with Indonesia and its complicity in Indonesia's genocide in East Timor.As an Australian, I must ask at what point in the balancing of international relations is our national integrity and honour dispensable? Before or after the people of East Timor completely disappear? As a testimony of our civilisation, it cannot be said that we have advanced the humanity of our nation, and with just cause our children and our children's children will condemn us for our indifference, our apathy, and our Government's appalling record of complicity in the genocide in East Timor.' JIM AUBREY 'The problem of East Timor will not go away, and we must not condone the inaction of our Government to address the significant human rights abuses in East Timor by remaining silent. Listen carefully to some of the voices in this book.East Timorese leader Xanana Gusmao says of Australia, "It is inconceivable and unacceptable that a democratic country with a western way of life, a country which claims to be the defender of human rights, should profit from the blood of other people.".As James Dunn has so eloquently written, the real test of a Government's commitment to the universality of human rights is a measure of the state of our civilisation. It is incumbent on Australia to resolve to work within the international community to remedy a gross violation of those standards against a small and vulnerable people.' SENATOR NATASHA STOTT DESPOJA 'Never once did the Timorese betray us. They were unbelievably loyal to us. That loyalty is why we survived and why I am able to stand here more than five decades later, to tell you of the debt my comrades and I owe to the Timorese people. It is a debt that we owe unto the third and fourth generations, and all the generations to come.Why has the Australian Government forgotten the Timorese? Here I am, at the age of seventy-seven, to plead with you to support the Timorese people. In 1942-3, at least 20,000 Timorese were killed by the Japanese, and by the war's end that figure had reached 60,000. That was the price the Timorese paid for helping us. More than 200,000 - that is, over one-third of the Timorese population - have been massacred by the Indonesians since 1975. This is genocide.' HARRY LEVY 2/4TH INDEPENDENT COMPANY With contributions from leading international writers like John Pilger and Noam Chomsky; jailed East Timorese resistance leader, Xanana Gusmao; Nobel Peace Prize winner and activist Jose Ramos Horta, human rights advocate Justice Marcus Einfeld, and many more, Free East Timor is the definitive and timely account of how Australia has turned its back on a near neighbour whose human rights are being violated every day. Attached is Justice Marcus Einfeld's impassioned account likening East Timor's genocide to the annihilation of the Jews in the second world war. The figures of destruction are truly shocking, but what is even more appalling is the fact that one-third of the population of a country can be wiped out before the eyes of the world, yet the world continues to ignore this outrage. Free East Timor is a vitally important book - because it literally is about life and death. The book contains 4 pages of horrifyingly explicit photographs of the torture of East Timorese women by Indonesian soldiers, soldiers who continue to be trained by the Australian defence forces. The book will be launched at the Sydney Writers' Festival on May 14, and there will also be a discussion on East Timor as part of the festival which will included John Pilger and Jim Aubrey, the editor of the book.
Book Synopsis East Timor's Independence, Indonesia and ASEAN by : Jean A. Berlie
Download or read book East Timor's Independence, Indonesia and ASEAN written by Jean A. Berlie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how history and traditions have shaped Timorese politics, as well as the role that Indonesia and ASEAN play for the country's future . It tries to understand a complex political system in which both traditional laws and contemporary politics are integrated, and examines the effects of Portuguese colonization, Indonesian neo-colonialism, United Nations missions, and electoral democracy. The volume also addresses broader issues such as the politics of modernization, the question of development, and youth education. The possibilities presented by the new president, Luo-Olo, as well as the upcoming parliamentary elections, make this project a timely contribution that confirms the vibrancy of East Timor's democratic process and bi-party political system.
Book Synopsis The Post-Colonial Security Dilemma by : Rebecca Strating
Download or read book The Post-Colonial Security Dilemma written by Rebecca Strating and published by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the development of Timor-Leste’s foreign policy since achieving political independence in 2002. It considers the influence of Timor-Leste’s historical experiences with foreign intervention on how the small, new state has pursued security. The book argues that efforts to secure the Timorese state have been motivated by a desire to reduce foreign intervention and dependence upon other actors within the international community. Timor-Leste’s desire for ‘real’ independence — characterized by the absence of foreign interference — permeates all spheres of its international political, cultural and economic relations and foreign policy discourse. Securing the state entails projecting a legitimate identity in the international community to protect and guarantee political recognition of sovereign status, an imperative that gives rise to Timor-Leste’s aspirational foreign policy. The book examines Timor-Leste’s key bilateral and multilateral diplomatic relations, its engagement with the global normative order, and its place within the changing Asia-Pacific region.
Download or read book On Ops written by Albert Palazzo and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a constructive critique of the modern Australian Army, 'On Ops' examines the massive transformation that has taken place since troops were deployed to East Timor 1999. Contributors include John Howard and Peter Leahy as well as Craig Stockings, David Horner and military historians, academics, intelligence experts and ex and current Army.
Book Synopsis Networked Governance of Freedom and Tyranny by : John Braithwaite
Download or read book Networked Governance of Freedom and Tyranny written by John Braithwaite and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new approach to the extraordinary story of Timor-Leste. The Indonesian invasion of the former Portuguese colony in 1975 was widely considered to have permanently crushed the Timorese independence movement. Initial international condemnation of the invasion was quickly replaced by widespread acceptance of Indonesian sovereignty. But inside Timor-Leste various resistance networks maintained their struggle, against all odds. Twenty-four years later, the Timorese were allowed to choose their political future and the new country of Timor-Leste came into being in 2002. This book presents freedom in Timor-Leste as an accomplishment of networked governance, arguing that weak networks are capable of controlling strong tyrannies. Yet, as events in Timor-Leste since independence show, the nodes of networks of freedom can themselves become nodes of tyranny. The authors argue that constant renewal of liberation networks is critical for peace with justice - feminist networks for the liberation of women, preventive diplomacy networks for liberation of victims of war, village development networks, civil society networks. Constant renewal of the separation of powers is also necessary. A case is made for a different way of seeing the separation of powers as constitutive of the republican ideal of freedom as non-domination. The book is also a critique of realism as a theory of international affairs and of the limits of reforming tyranny through the centralised agency of a state sovereign. Reversal of Indonesia's 1975 invasion of Timor-Leste was an implausible accomplishment. Among the things that achieved it was principled engagement with Indonesia and its democracy movement by the Timor resistance. Unprincipled engagement by Australia and the United States in particular allowed the 1975 invasion to occur. The book argues that when the international community regulates tyranny responsively, with principled engagement, there is hope for a domestic politics of nonviolent transformation for freedom and justice.
Download or read book A New Era? written by Sue Ingram and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timor-Leste has made impressive progress since its historic achievement of independence in 2002. From the instability that blighted its early years, the fledgling democratic country has achieved strong economic growth and a gradual reinstatement of essential social services. A decade on in 2012, Presidential and Parliamentary elections produced smooth political transitions and the extended UN peacekeeping presence in the country came to an end. But significant challenges remain. This book, a product of the inaugural Timor-Leste Update held at The Australian National University in 2013 to mark the end of Timor-Leste’s first decade as a new nation, brings together a vibrant collection of papers from leading and emerging scholars and policy analysts. Collectively, the chapters provide a set of critical reflections on recent political, economic and social developments in Timor-Leste. The volume also looks to the future, highlighting a range of transitions, prospects and undoubted challenges facing the nation over the next 5–10 years. Key themes that inform the collection include nation-building in the shadow of history, trends in economic development, stability and social cohesion, and citizenship, democracy and social inclusion. The book is an indispensable guide to contemporary Timor-Leste.
Book Synopsis Forgotten Island by : Bruce J. Watson
Download or read book Forgotten Island written by Bruce J. Watson and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly fifty years following the Indonesian annexation of East Timor, this tiny, former Portuguese colony remains in the international spotlight. Forgotten Island takes us back to the genesis of the Australian-Indonesian relationship, seeking to answer the question as to why liberal Australia, led by an erudite social democrat in Gough Whitlam, looked away and even became culpably involved in Indonesia's 1975 invasion of Timor, contrary to the principles Australia and Whitlam espoused. Tracing the history of Australia's often troubled relationship with Indonesia, from Independence, through the West New Guinea dispute and onto the Confrontation episode, Australia's role in the Timor Crisis becomes explicable as it sought accommodation with Suharto's New Order. This book puts Timor at the centre of powerful forces beyond its control - post-war decolonisation, Portugal's Carnation Revolution, the Cold War, regional security and Australia's quest to find a new role in Asia. Aggregating multi-archival sources from around the world, it finally resolves the hotly contested issue concerning Australia's 'greenlighting' of Suharto in advance of the invasion, an exercise in realpolitik against what was to the rest of th-e world, a Forgotten Island.
Download or read book Funu written by José Ramos-Horta and published by The Red Sea Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986, this is a re-issue of 1996 Nobel Peace Price winner Jose Ramos-Horta's book on the struggles in East Timor and the world's indifference to them. With a preface by Noam Chomsky.
Book Synopsis Australian Foreign and Defense Policy in the Wake of the 1999/2000 East Timor Intervention by : Peter Chalk
Download or read book Australian Foreign and Defense Policy in the Wake of the 1999/2000 East Timor Intervention written by Peter Chalk and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 1999, Australia undertook its most significant external militaryoperations since the Vietnam War--the intervention to stem the violence andbloodshed following East Timor_s August 1999 vote to separate fromIndonesia. This book examines key developments leading to the deployment ofthe International Peacekeeping Force for East Timor (INTERFET) and assessesthe impact of this intervention on Canberra_s future defense, security, andforeign policy planning. The author finds that future Australian-Indonesianrelations are unlikely to exhibit the cordiality of Prime Minister PaulKeating_s era, but will instead be guided by a more-businesslike and frankstyle of engagement. The author also finds that the 2000 Defence WhitePaper, which was issued in the aftermath of the INTERFET intervention toprovide a long-term plan for restructuring Australia_s armed forces forrapid deployments to areas of regional unrest, is both ambiguous andopen-ended. A defense review like the white paper could result in aresource-deprived force structure, contribute to a somewhat confusedSoutheast Asian policy, and generate unfounded expectations of whatAustralia is able and willing to do in terms of its alliance commitmentswith the United States and associated contributions to coalition warfare.
Book Synopsis Self-determination in East Timor by : Ian Martin
Download or read book Self-determination in East Timor written by Ian Martin and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott (copy 1): From the John Holmes Library collection.
