Timor-Leste’s celebrated journey to statehood violently unravelled in 2006. Why did the young state stumble so badly, given the overwhelming national consensus for independence and firm international support for reconstruction? This article argues that the city is central to state-making by mediating between forces of external and internal integration to build prosperity, citizenship and security, particularly in the context of fragile states. While external integration denotes the opening up of the state to the international community and its market, internal integration is about embedding economic, political and security aspects of state-making. The case of Timor-Leste illustrates these processes and how the urban crisis of 2006–07 occurr...
Timor-Leste is the youngest and poorest state in all Asia. Its birth as a State has become an intere...
This article contributes to the discussion of the international democratisation of the so-called �...
With the benefit of almost 20 years of hindsight, in this article we evaluate the legacy of state-bu...
Timor-Leste’s celebrated journey to statehood violently unravelled in 2006. Why did the young state ...
Timor-Leste's celebrated journey to statehood violently unravelled in 2006, leaving the country...
The breakdown of law and order in Timor-Leste in 2006 has two important dimensions: internal power s...
State and nation building, although often used interchangeably in international relations policy and...
Following a long independence struggle and international intervention, in 2006 the tiny impoverished...
After East Timor was hailed as a success story of nation-building in the twenty-first century the c...
© Copyright The National University of Singapore 2017. During Timor-Leste's political and security c...
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published as Jones, Lee. (2010). (Post) coloni...
The Politics of Timor-Leste explores the critical issues facing the Asia-Pacific's youngest nation a...
Ph.D. University of Hawaii at Manoa 2014.Includes bibliographical references.Timor-Leste, which emer...
The political turmoil and the excesses of violence that hit Timor-Leste in August and September 1999...
This article addresses the enmeshments of customary and liberal institutional values and practices i...
Timor-Leste is the youngest and poorest state in all Asia. Its birth as a State has become an intere...
This article contributes to the discussion of the international democratisation of the so-called �...
With the benefit of almost 20 years of hindsight, in this article we evaluate the legacy of state-bu...
Timor-Leste’s celebrated journey to statehood violently unravelled in 2006. Why did the young state ...
Timor-Leste's celebrated journey to statehood violently unravelled in 2006, leaving the country...
The breakdown of law and order in Timor-Leste in 2006 has two important dimensions: internal power s...
State and nation building, although often used interchangeably in international relations policy and...
Following a long independence struggle and international intervention, in 2006 the tiny impoverished...
After East Timor was hailed as a success story of nation-building in the twenty-first century the c...
© Copyright The National University of Singapore 2017. During Timor-Leste's political and security c...
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published as Jones, Lee. (2010). (Post) coloni...
The Politics of Timor-Leste explores the critical issues facing the Asia-Pacific's youngest nation a...
Ph.D. University of Hawaii at Manoa 2014.Includes bibliographical references.Timor-Leste, which emer...
The political turmoil and the excesses of violence that hit Timor-Leste in August and September 1999...
This article addresses the enmeshments of customary and liberal institutional values and practices i...
Timor-Leste is the youngest and poorest state in all Asia. Its birth as a State has become an intere...
This article contributes to the discussion of the international democratisation of the so-called �...
With the benefit of almost 20 years of hindsight, in this article we evaluate the legacy of state-bu...