Timor as a failed state: a slap in the face for ASEAN?
Within days of the first-ever ASEAN defence ministers meeting in Kuala Lumpur on 9th May 2006, Timor Leste went into a freefall of violence and mayhem. This tiny state, situated just on ASEAN's eastern doorstep, won its independence from Indonesia in 2002 following a UN-sponsored referendum in...
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| author | Yang Razali Kassim |
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| description | Within days of the first-ever ASEAN defence ministers meeting in Kuala Lumpur on 9th May 2006, Timor Leste went into a freefall of violence and mayhem. This tiny state, situated just on ASEAN's eastern doorstep, won its independence from Indonesia in 2002 following a UN-sponsored referendum in 1999. But it has been struggling to be a viable nation-state ever since. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/822072020-11-01T06:38:35Z Timor as a failed state: a slap in the face for ASEAN? Yang Razali Kassim S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science Within days of the first-ever ASEAN defence ministers meeting in Kuala Lumpur on 9th May 2006, Timor Leste went into a freefall of violence and mayhem. This tiny state, situated just on ASEAN's eastern doorstep, won its independence from Indonesia in 2002 following a UN-sponsored referendum in 1999. But it has been struggling to be a viable nation-state ever since. 2016-02-02T02:12:28Z 2019-12-06T14:48:36Z 2016-02-02T02:12:28Z 2019-12-06T14:48:36Z 2006 Commentary Yang Razali Kassim. (2006). Timor as a failed state: a slap in the face for ASEAN?. (RSIS Commentaries, No. 046). RSIS Commentaries. Singapore: Nanyang Technological University. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82207 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39921 en RSIS Commentaries, 046-06 Nanyang Technological University 3 p. application/pdf |
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| title | Timor as a failed state: a slap in the face for ASEAN? |
| title_full | Timor as a failed state: a slap in the face for ASEAN? |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Timor as a failed state: a slap in the face for ASEAN? |
| title_short | Timor as a failed state: a slap in the face for ASEAN? |
| title_sort | timor as a failed state a slap in the face for asean |
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