Independent Timor-Leste: Between Coercion and Consent

TL;DR: In this article , the authors argue that Southeast Asia's failure to develop stronger social protection systems has been, at its root, a matter of politics and power, and that while such developments shifted policy in a more progressive direction, they have been insufficient to produce far-reaching change.

TL;DR: In this paper , public understandings of democracy based on original surveys fielded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand are analyzed. And the authors identify important relationships between conceptions of democracy and other attitudes, such as satisfaction with democracy, support for democracy, trust in institutions, policy preferences and political behaviour.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the economic and political forces behind the political marginalization of working-class organizations in Southeast Asia and analyzes three distinctive "anatomies of contention" of Southeast Asia's feistiest labor movements in Cambodia, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

TL;DR: Myanmar: A Political Lexicon explores the relationship between words and politics in Myanmar, highlighting the historical and contemporary significance of ideas like power, race, patriarchy and revolution.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the four peace operations mandated by the Security Council in East Timor between 1999 and 2004, and the role of regional actors in these processes, and argue that the record of the overall performance of the UN is mixed.

TL;DR: Dependent Communities as discussed by the authors investigates the political situations in contemporary Cambodia and East Timor, where powerful international donors intervened following deadly internal conflicts and compares international policies that focus on rebuilding state institutions to accommodate the global market.

TL;DR: The Dynamics of Transitional Justice as discussed by the authors examines the gap between the official claims made for transitional justice and local expectations, and provides new insights for researchers and practitioners in the field of transitional justice.

TL;DR: In the case of East Timor, Cady et al. as mentioned in this paper concluded that "state failure" rather than "undeniable success" is the more appropriate judgment on the UN's two-and-a-half-year tenure in EastTimor.