This book provides a comprehensive country overview of Southeast Asia's newest nation,
Timor Leste (East Timor). This book focuses on its cultural and ethno-linguistic diversity, and …

Joanne Wallis is a lecturer in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National
University. She has previously taught at the University of Cambridge, the University of …

Timor-Leste celebrated its formal political independence on 20th May 2002. The National
Constitution of the new nation declared the endogenous lingua franca (Tetum) and the …

In the village of Funar, located in the central highlands of Timor-Leste, the disturbing events
of the twenty-four-year-long Indonesian occupation are rarely articulated in narratives of …

The past three decades since the end of the Cold War have been a time of remarkable
change for Southeast Asia. Long seen as an arena for superpower rivalry, Southeast Asia is …

The book presents the international laws on the use of force whilst demonstrating the unique
insight a feminist analysis offers this central area of international law. The book highlights …

In recent years, Europeans have engaged in sharp debates about migrants and minority
groups as social problems. The discussions usually neglect who these people are, how they …

Few new nations have endured a birth as traumatic as that endured by Asia's youngest
country, East Timor. Born amid the flames, pillage and mayhem that surrounded Indonesia's …

Few studies have explored the relationships between nation‐building, disaster risk
reduction and climate change adaptation. Focusing on small island developing states, this …

The settlement of the maritime boundary disputes between China and Japan in the East
China Sea, and between Greece and Turkey in the Aegean Sea, is politically deadlocked …