[TimorLesteStudies] Thesis on-line: A study of the offshore petroleum negotiations between Australia, the U.N. and East Timor

[Bu Wilson]

Munton, Alexander J.2007.A study of the offshore petroleum negotiations
between Australia, the U.N. and East Timor.PhD thesis. The Australian
National University

Abstract
In this thesis I investigate the process of international negotiation to
resolve a serious dispute between Australia and East Timor over offshore oil
and gas, which arose after East Timor's transition to independence in 1999.
The central aim is to uncover and analyse the dynamics of the negotiations,
and to explain how outcomes were determined. The question of negotiated
outcomes is of special significance given the extent to which East Timor was
able to move Australia beyond its preferred outcome. In this case, the
seemingly weaker party was able to overcome a more powerful bargaining
opponent. My aim in writing this thesis is to explain why that was possible
and how it was achieved.

http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20080103.103318/index.html

Bu Wilson
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College of Asia and the Pacific, RSPAS
Australian National University 
Canberra   ACT   0200 
AUSTRALIA 

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