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<p class="MsoNormal">David Webster. 2020. <i>Challenge the Strong Wind: Canada and East Timor, 1975–99</i>, Vancouver: UBC Press, 312pp.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.ubcpress.ca/challenge-the-strong-wind">http://www.ubcpress.ca/challenge-the-strong-wind</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In 1975, Indonesian forces overran East Timor, just days after it had declared independence from Portugal. Canadian officials knew the invasion was coming and initially endorsed Indonesian rule. The ensuing occupation of the Southeast Asian
country lasted twenty-four years.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Challenge the Strong Wind recounts the evolution of Canadian government policy toward East Timor from 1975 to its 1999 independence vote. During this time, Canadian civil society groups and NGOs worked in support of Timorese independence
activists by promoting an alternative Canadian foreign policy that focused on self-determination and human rights. After following the lead of pro-Indonesian allies in the 1970s and ’80s, by the 1990s Ottawa had yielded to pressure from these NGOs and began
to make its own decisions, eventually pushing like-minded countries to join it in supporting Timorese self-rule.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">David Webster draws on previously untapped archival sources to articulate both government and non-government perceptions of the crisis. Human rights, competing nationalist claims, and peacemaking – key twentieth-century themes – intersect
in East Timor, and the conflict provides a model of multilevel dialogue, citizen diplomacy, and novel approaches to resolving complex disputes. Ultimately, Webster criticizes the Canadian government for complicity in a near genocide, demonstrating that a clear-eyed
view of international history must include non-state perspectives.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This sharply drawn work will be required reading for scholars studying Canadian history, foreign policy, international relations, human rights, Southeast Asia, and social activism.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Professor Michael Leach</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Politics and International Relations
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Swinburne University of Technology</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">New book (now available in paperback):
</span><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Nation-Building-and-National-Identity-in-Timor-Leste/Leach/p/book/9780367025243"><span style="color:blue">https://www.routledge.com/Nation-Building-and-National-Identity-in-Timor-Leste/Leach/p/book/9780367025243</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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