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Title: Independent Timor-Leste: Between Coercion and Consent
Author : Douglas Kammen
Release Date : January 11, 2019
Genre: World Affairs,Books,Politics & Current Events,
Pages : * pages
Size : 4517 KB

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This Element explores the primary modes by which rulers have exercised power and shaped political relations in Timor-Leste across four distinct periods. The contrast between coercion under colonial rule and consent expressed through the 1999 referendum on independence exerted a powerful influence on scholarship on Timor-Leste's politics and future. Since the restoration of independence in 2002, however, politics in Timor-Leste are best understood in terms of powerful economic constraints during the first Fretilin government (2002–06), and thereafter, thanks to revenue from the country's petroleum reserves, a ruling strategy based on a wide range of inducements (rather than genuine consent).