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Article Excerpt
East Timor: Beyond Independence. Edited by Damien Kingsbury and Michael Leach. Clayton: Monash University Press, 2007. Softcover: 302pp.
On the back cover of this book, the editors confidently claim that: "This is the most comprehensive study of East Timor since independence ..." Indeed this book covers a raft of important issues that East Timor faces: the main headings are development, borders and security, politics and justice, resource and land management, education and language policy.
Turning to some of the major themes, perhaps one of the most topical is East Timor's political divides. Various chapters touch on the political rivalry that has grown between the former Prime Minister Marl Alkatiri and his Fretilin supporters on one hand, and the opposition to Fretilin that emerged around the former President, and now Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao on the other. (Sarah Niner and Michael Leach in their important respective chapters speak of the continuing persistence of leaders who emerged in the 1970s. In fact, their role in East Timor's independence struggle has had an important legitimizing function with the electorate--more...
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