ABSTRACT

This book explains the exceptional nature of the East Timor intervention of 1999, and deals with the background to the trusteeship role of the UN in building the new polity. All of these developments had an important impact on regional order, not least testing the ASEAN norm of 'non-interference'.Australian complicity in the Indonesian occupation o

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|18 pages

East Timor and Australia

The 25-year policy legacy

chapter 3|19 pages

The failure of Indonesian policy

chapter 5|21 pages

Australia’s East Timor commitment

Causes and consequences

chapter 6|15 pages

Australia’s East Timor

The official version and its critique

chapter 7|21 pages

Outcomes

Peace-keeping lessons, security dilemmas, bilateral tensions

chapter 8|18 pages

Conclusion

Independent Timor-Leste in a regional and global context