Independent Timor-Leste: Between Coercion And Consent (Elements In Politics And Society In Southeast Asia)

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 (2002-2006), 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).

• | Author: Douglas Kammen
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 11, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 75 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1108457584
• | ISBN-13: 9781108457583