Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, ‘Exploring the Effective Authority of International Administrations from the League of Nations to the United Nations’, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 11(4
Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste both have new coalition governments following mid-year parliamentary elections, but the processes that produced them and the outcomes could not be more dissimilar.
Since 1999, when a United Nations (UN)
transitional administration was established in the
wake of the East Timorese vote for independence
from Indonesia, the case of Timor-Leste has been a
In 2015, the Australian Government–funded Nabilan1 Program (Ending Violence against Women) conducted a study on violence against women and children in Timor-Leste (Asia Foundation 2016).
In this Discussion Paper, I consider first the academic debate on the establishment of democracy and the role of political competition and cooperation as a background to the current Timorese govern
This Discussion Paper anticipates the potential
impacts and impoverishment risks of the Suai
Supply Base Project in Timor-Leste, paying
particular attention to the project’s likely gendered