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    ‘‘We have resisted, now we must build’’: Regionalism and nation-building in Timor-Leste

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    Shiosaki, Elfie
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Shiosaki, E. 2017. ‘‘We have resisted, now we must build’’: Regionalism and nation-building in Timor-Leste. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 48 (1): pp. 53-70.
    Source Title
    Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
    DOI
    10.1017/S0022463416000473
    ISSN
    0022-4634
    School
    Centre for Human Rights Education
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56088
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    • Curtin Research Publications
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    © Copyright The National University of Singapore 2017. During Timor-Leste's political and security crisis in 2006, a seemingly latent regional division re-emerged between Timorese from its eastern region, lorosa'e, and those from its western region, loromonu. The conflict between lorosa'e and loromonu revealed critical weaknesses in nation-building. Only four years after independence in 2002, international peacekeeping forces, led by Australia, were redeployed to the new nation-state. This article argues that the enduring political significance of regionalism weakens nation-building in Timor-Leste. This case study revitalises traditional security paradigms by relocating identity-building from the periphery of nation-building to its centre. Identity-building supports the formation of a unifying national political community which transcends social divisions within post-conflict societies.

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