[TimorLesteStudies] IPRIS Viewpoints 54

[Goncalo Carneiro]

All eyes on Timor Leste: juggling regional security sensitivities

Pedro Seabra

How should a small and fragile state cope with active interest in its 
underlined strategic value for the entire region from several 
surrounding neighbors? Moreover, how should such a country skillfully 
handle contradictory defense considerations emanating from a distinctive 
set of international security suitors without antagonizing any of them? 
As straightforward as they may seem, these are just some of the 
questions that today's policymakers must answer in Timor Leste, a 
country exhibiting more and more signs of a carefully designed security 
approach, based simultaneously on an equidistance between every major 
player and occasional tokens of commitment for a selective few.

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