[TimorLesteStudies] New Book Publication: The Crisis in Timor-Leste: Understanding the Past, Imagining the Future

[Jenny]

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>The Crisis in Timor-Leste: Understanding the Past, Imagining the Future
>
>edited by Dennis Shoesmith
>
>ISBN-13: 9780980384628
>
>This book offers a collection of papers originating in a symposium,
>'The Crisis in Timor-Leste: Understanding the Past, Imagining the
>Future', held at Charles Darwin University on 13 November 2006.
>Together, the papers in this volume address the historical, social
>and political causes of unrest in Timor-Leste, explaining the
>violence and rebellion of 2006 in a larger context. By doing this
>they identify ways to respond to the causes of unrest, particularly
>the social and developmental strategies the East Timorese can pursue
>in order to negotiate the transition to a stable, democratic and viable
>state.
>
>Contributors: James Cotton, Jennifer Drysdale, Steven Farram, Trevor
>Le Lievre, Andrew McWilliam, Ron May, David Mearns, Rod Nixon, Kate
>Reid-Smith, Dennis Shoesmith
>
>Dennis Shoesmith is Associate Professor of Politics at Charles Darwin
>University. He has worked as a consultant in Timor-Leste with the
>United Nations and USAID.
>
>Further information about this publication at:
><http://www.cdu.edu.au/cdupress/books/CrisisInTimorLeste.htm>http://www.
>cdu.edu.au/cdupress/books/CrisisInTimorLeste.htm
>
>CONTENTS
>
>INTRODUCTION
>Dennis Shoesmith
>
>PART ONE: CHALLENGES TO THE STATE
>
>Ron May
>State Building in Weak States: Some Reflections on the Australian
>Experience
>
>James Cotton
>The Crisis of the Timor-Leste State in Comparative Perspective
>
>Dennis Shoesmith
>Timor-Leste: Interpreting Violence in a Post-Conflict State
>
>PART TWO: CHALLENGES TO CIVIL SOCIETY
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>Andrew McWilliam
>East and West in Timor-Leste: Is there an Ethnic Divide?
>
>David Mearns
>Masking the Pain: Nation Building and 'Local Anaesthetic' in Timor-Leste
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>PART THREE: TIMOR-LESTE AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
>
>Steven Farram
>Australian Interest in Timor: A Historical Overview
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>Kate Reid-Smith
>Crocodile Oil: Dragon's Treasure - A Possible Future Southeast Asian
>Geopolitical Diaspora?
>
>PART FOUR: THE CHALLENGES OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
>
>Jennifer Drysdale
>The Institutional Challenges of Managing Timor-Leste's Petroleum Revenue
>
>Trevor Le Lievre
>Petroleum Sector Investment and Sovereign Risk Perception in East Timor
>
>Rod Nixon
>Challenges for Managing State Agricultural Land and Promoting
>Post-Subsistence Primary Industry Development in East Timor



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Jenny Drysdale
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