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Douglas Kammen. 2019. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><i>Independent Timor-Leste: Between Coercion and Consent</i>. Cambridge University Press, 76pp.</p>
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Series: Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia</p>
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This Element explores the primary modes by which rulers have exercised power and shaped political relations in Timor-Leste across four distinct periods. The contrast between coercion under colonial rule and consent expressed through the 1999 referendum on independence
exerted a powerful influence on scholarship on Timor-Leste's politics and future. Since the restoration of independence in 2002, however, politics in Timor-Leste are best understood in terms of powerful economic constraints during the first Fretilin government
(2002–06), and thereafter, thanks to revenue from the country's petroleum reserves, a ruling strategy based on a wide range of inducements (rather than genuine consent).</p>
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