<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Enquiries to: </span><a href='javascript:addSender("ben moxham <benmoxham@hotmail.com>")'>benmoxham@hotmail.com</a> <br><br><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Title </span><font size="2">:&nbsp;</font><i><b><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2">State-Making                                 and the Post-Conflict City: Integration in Dili, Disintegration                                 in Timor-Leste</font></span></b></i><i> <br></i><p class="Bibliography">                                <font style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700;">Abstract:</font></p>                                <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">                                <span lang="EN-GB"><font style="font-size: 9pt;">Timor-Leste's                                 celebrated journey to statehood violently unravelled in 2006,                                 leaving the country's post-independence dream in tatters. Why                                 has the young state has stumbled so badly given the overwhelming                                 national consensus for independence and firm international                                 support for reconstruction? Many scholars have attempted to                                 solve this puzzle, but none have succeeding in providing a                                 comprehensive analysis. This paper seeks to build on the                                 existing scholarship on state-building by introducing the city                                 as the key site of 'internal integration' central to the                                 fortunes of state formation under conditions of globalisation                                 and crisis. Exploring the processes of state-building that took                                 place in Timor-Leste under Portuguese and Indonesian occupation                                 and the role of the international community post-1999, the paper                                 concludes that the donor-scripted state-building model for                                 Timor-Leste was inappropriate, ultimately precipitating urban                                 crisis in Dili and the city's failure to drive state-making and                                 'internal integration' in the country at large.</font></span></p>