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dc.contributor.authorShiosaki, Elfie
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-24T02:22:16Z
dc.date.available2017-08-24T02:22:16Z
dc.date.created2017-08-23T07:21:34Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationShiosaki, 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.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56088
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0022463416000473
dc.description.abstract

© 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.

dc.publisherNational University of Singapore
dc.title‘‘We have resisted, now we must build’’: Regionalism and nation-building in Timor-Leste
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume48
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage53
dcterms.source.endPage70
dcterms.source.issn0022-4634
dcterms.source.titleJournal of Southeast Asian Studies
curtin.departmentCentre for Human Rights Education
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