Narrating Democracy in Myanmar
Tamas Wells
- Title
- Dynamics of Democracy in Timor-Leste
- Subtitle
- The Birth of a Democratic Nation, 1999-2012
- Author
- Rui Feijo
- Price
- € 129,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789089648044
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 17 - 05 - 2016
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Series
- Transforming Asia
- Category
- International Relations
- Discipline
- Asian Studies
- Also available as
- eBook PDF - € 128,99
Foreword: Revisiting a success story with critical eyes
Chapter 1: Democracy in the 21st century: lineages and configurations of an impure concept
Chapter 2: Assessing the odds: could Timor-Leste become a Democracy?
Chapter 3: Constitutionalism Old and New in the ?UN Kingdom? of Timor-Leste
Chapter 4: Elections in a Young Democracy: popular voice and control.
Chapter 5: Semi-presidentialism with 'independent' presidents: political inclusiveness and democratic consolidation
Chapter 6: Grassroots Democracy: building a decentralized state where worlds meet
Epilogue: After 2012: new challenges to the consolidation of Democracy
Reviews and Features
"Given that the next general elections in Timor-Leste will take place in 2017, this extremely interesting book is a timely and valuable analysis of the state of the polity that will be re-assessed by the people on this occasion. It is a work of knowledge, insight and analysis in which the author demonstrates a passion for his subject ... Every one inside and outside of Timor-Leste who has thought about and cares for democracy as a universal but threatened concept will learn from this book." - Guy Cumes, International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Vol. 47.
"This book will be of interest to a wide audience. For those concerned with questions of institutional design and the challenges of its implementation, the book provides a sophisticated account of semi-presidentialism and an encouraging perspective on democratic participation in newly independent states." - Douglas Kammen, National University of Singapore, in Pacific Affairs: Volume 90, No. 4 - December 2017
"This book will be of interest to a wide audience. For those concerned with questions of institutional design and the challenges of its implementation, the book provides a sophisticated account of semi-presidentialism and an encouraging perspective on democratic participation in newly independent states." - Douglas Kammen, National University of Singapore, in Pacific Affairs: Volume 90, No. 4 - December 2017
Rui Feijo
Dynamics of Democracy in Timor-Leste
The Birth of a Democratic Nation, 1999-2012
The Indonesian province of Timor-Leste made international news when it decided to break away from Indonesia in 1999. The decision sparked deadly rampages by pro-integrationist militias, violence that only abated when the UN sent a force to maintain peace and help ease the way to actual independence. This book details the political history of Timor-Leste, both preceding and following the declaration of independence, and it uses the events, consequences, and lessons of that period to help us understand what to expect for similar experiments in democracy building elsewhere in the world.
Author
Rui Feijo
Rui Graça Feijó is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, and Associate Researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History, NOVA University of Lisbon.
