Journal Articles and Books
Amnesty International (2003). The Democratic Republic of Timor Leste: A new police service – a new beginning, London: Amnesty International.
Anderson, T. (2003). Self-determination after independence: East Timor and the World Bank, Portuguese Studies Review 11(1): 169–185.
Anderson, T. (2010). Cuban health cooperation in Timor-Leste and the Pacific, South West, in South-south cooperation: A challenge to the aid system, Quezon City: IBON Books, 77–86.
Arnold, M. (2010). Timor-Leste: The window for a “normal” future?, Asian Survey 51(1): 215–220.
Aspinall, E., Hicken, A., Scambary, J., and Weiss, M. (2018). Timor-Leste votes: parties and patronage, Journal of Democracy 29(1): 153–167.
Babo-Soares, D. (2003). Branching from the Trunk: East Timorese Perceptions of Nationalism in Transition, Ph.D. Dissertation, Australian National University.
Babo-Soares, D. (2004). Nahe Biti: the philosophy and process of grassroots reconciliation (and justice) in East Timor, Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 5(1): 15–33.
Ball, D. (2002). Defence of East Timor: A recipe for disaster? Global Change, Peace & Security 14(3): 175–189.
Barma, N., Huybens, E., and Viñuela, L. (2014). Institutions taking root: Building state capacity in challenging contexts, Washington, DC: World Bank.
Beauvais, J. (2001). Benevolent despotism: A critique of U.N. state-building in East Timor, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 33(4): 1101–1178.
Beuman, L. (2016). Political institutions in East Timor: Semi-presidentialism and democratisation, London and New York: Routledge.
Blunt, P. (2009). The political-economy of accountability in Timor-Leste: Implications for public policy, Public Administration and Development, 29(2): 89–100.
Boughton, B. (2008). Unraveling the East Timor Assassination Story: Republic’s rebel with friends in high places, The Australian, 16 February.
Bovensiepen, J. (2015). The land of gold: Post-conflict recovery and cultural revival in independent Timor-Leste, Ithaca, NY: Cornell Southeast Asia Program.
Bovensiepen, J., ed. (2018). The promise of progress: visions of the future in Timor-Leste, Canberra: ANU Press.
Centre for Defence Studies (2000). Independent study on security force options for East Timor, London: The Centre for Defence Studies, King’s College.
Chesterman, S. (2004). Building democracy through benevolent autocracy. In Newman, E. and Rich, R., eds., The UN Role in Promoting Democracy: Between Ideals and Reality, Tokyo: United Nations University Press, pp. 86–112.
Chomsky, N. (2006). Foreword, in Tanter, R., Ball, D., and van Klinken, G., Masters of Terror: Indonesia’s military and violence in East Timor, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. ix–xiii.
Chopra, J. (2002). Building state failure in East Timor, Development and Change 33(5): 979–1000.
Cohen, D. (2003). Intended to fail: The trials before the Ad Hoc Human Rights Court in Jakarta, New York: International Center for Transitional Justice.
Comissão de Acolhimento Verdade e Reconciliação de Timor-Leste (CAVR) (2013). Chega! The Report of the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation, Dili: CAVR.
Cotton, J. (2007). Timor-Leste and the discourse of state failure, Australian Journal of International Affairs 61(4): 455–470.
Devereux, A. (2015). Timor-Leste’s bill of rights: A preliminary history. Canberra: ANU Press.
Drysdale, J. (2007). Sustainable development or resource cursed? An exploration of Timor-Leste’s institutional choices, PhD. thesis, The Australian National University.
Engel, R. (2015). The state, society and international interventions in Timor-Leste: creating conditions for violence, PhD. thesis, SOAS.
Feijó, R. (2013). Timor-Leste in 2013: Marching on its own feet, Asian Survey 54(1): 83–88.
Feijó, R. (2016). Dynamics of democracy in Timor-Leste: The birth of a democratic nation, 1999–2012, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press.
Feijó, R. (2018). Timor-Leste in 2017: Between a diplomatic victory and the return of “belligerent democracy,” Asian Survey 58(1): 206–212.
Fitzpatrick, D. (2000). Re-establishing land titles and administration in East Timor, Pacific Economic Bulletin 15(2): 152–160.
Fitzpatrick, D., McWilliam, A., and Barnes, S. (2012). Property and social resilience in times of conflict: Land, custom and law in East Timor, London and New York: Routledge.
Goldstone, A. (2004). UNTAET with Hindsight: The peculiarities of politics in an incomplete state, Global Governance 10: 83–98.
Goldstone, A. (2013). Building a state and “state-building”: East Timor and the UN, 1999–2012. In Berdal, M. and Zaum, D., eds., Political economy of state-building: power after peace, London and New York: Routledge.
Gorjão, P. (2002). The legacy and lessons of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor, Contemporary Southeast Asia 24(2): 313–336.
Gorjão, P., and Monteiro, A. (2009). Is Timor-Leste a failed state? Portuguese Journal of International Affairs 1: 12–21.
Grenfell, L. (2009). Promoting the rule of law in Timor-Leste, Conflict, Security and Development 9(2): 213–238.
Gunn, G. C. (2007). The state of East Timor studies after 1999, Journal of Contemporary Asia 37(1): 95–114.
Gunn, G. C. (2010). Timor-Leste in 2009: Cup half full or half empty? Asian Survey 50(1): 235–240.
Gusmão, X. (1982). Message to the 37th United Nations General Assembly. In S. Niner, ed. 2000, pp. 74–84.
Gusmão, X. (1986). A history that beats in the Maubere Soul. In S. Niner, ed. 2000, pp. 85–126.
Gusmão, X. (1998). New Year Message for 1999. In S. Niner, ed. 2000, pp. 224–235.
Gusmão, X. (2003). Address by H. E. President Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, Xanana on the occasion of the International Conference on Traditional Conflict Resolution and Traditional Justice in Timor-Leste, Dili, June 27.
Gusmão, X. (2005). Timor Lives! Speeches of freedom and independence, Alexandria, New South Wales: Longueville Media.
Guterres, J. C. (2008). Timor-Leste: A year of democratic elections, Southeast Asian Affairs: 359–372.
Hill, H., and Saldanha, J. (2001). East Timor: Development Challenges for the World’s Newest Nation, Singapore: ISEAS.
Hohe, T. (2002). The clash of paradigms: International administration and local political legitimacy in East Timor, Contemporary Southeast Asia 24(3): 569–589.
Hohe, T., and Nixon, R. (2003). Reconciling justice: “Traditional” law and state judiciary in Timor-Leste, Dili: United States Institute of Peace.
Hughes, C. (2009). Dependent Communities: Aid and Politics in Cambodia and East Timor, Ithaca, NY: Cornell Southeast Asia Program.
Hunt, Janet (2004). Building a new society: NGOs in East Timor. New Community Quarterly 2(1): 16–23.
Hyland, T., and Murdoch, L. (2002). East Timor celebrates as a nation is born, The Age, May 20.
Ingram, S., Kent, L., and McWilliam, A. (2015). A new era? Timor-Leste after the UN, Canberra: ANU Press.
International Crisis Group (2006). Resolving Timor-Leste’s crisis, Dili/Brussels: Asia Report No. 120.
International Crisis Group (2007). Timor-Leste’s parliamentary elections, Dili/Brussels: Update briefing No. 65.
International Crisis Group (2009). Timor-Leste: No time for complacency, Dili/Brussels: Asia Briefing No. 97.
International Crisis Group (2011). Timor-Leste’s veterans: An unfinished struggle, Dili/Brussels: Asia Briefing No. 129.
Kammen, D. (2009). A tape-recorder and a wink? Transcript of the May 29, 1983 Meeting Between Governor Carrascalão and Xanana Gusmão, Indonesia 87: 73–102.
Kammen, D. (2010). Subordinating Timor: Central authority and the origin of communal identities in East Timor, Bijdragen tot de Tal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 166 (2/3): 244–269.
Kammen, D. (2011a). The armed forces in Timor-Leste: Politicization through elite conflict, in Mietzner, M., ed., The political resurgence of the military in Southeast Asia: Conflict and leadership, London and NY: Routledge, pp. 107–125.
Kammen, D. (2011b). Sovereignty and food politics in East Timor, Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies 26 (1–2): 264–273.
Kammen, D. (2012). Between violence and negotiation: Rethinking the Indonesian occupation and East Timorese resistance, in Miller, M., ed., Autonomy and Armed Separatism in South and Southeast Asia, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, pp. 93–112.
Kammen, D., and Hayati, S. (2007). Crisis and Rice in East Timor, CounterPunch, March 5.
Katzenstein, S. (2003). Hybrid tribunals: Searching for justice in East Timor, Harvard Human Rights Journal 16: 245–278.
Kent, L. (2012). The dynamics of transitional justice: International models and local realities in East Timor, Oxon and New York: Routledge.
Kent, L., and Kinsella, N. (2015). The veterans’ valorisation scheme: Marginalising women’s contributions to the resistance. In S. Ingram et al. 2015, pp. 213–223.
King, D. (2003). East Timor’s founding elections and emerging party system, Asian Survey 43(5): 745–757.
Kingsbury, D. (2009). East Timor: The price of freedom, New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Kingsbury, D. (2010). National identity in Timor-Leste: Challenges and opportunities, South East Asia Research 18(1): 133–159.
Leach, M. (2009). The 2007 presidential and parliamentary elections in Timor-Leste, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 55(2): 219–232.
Leach, M. (2013). Timor-Leste in 2012 beyond international statebuilding? Asian Survey 53(1): 156–161.
Martin, I., and Mayer-Reickh, A. (2005). The United Nations and East Timor: From self-determination to state-building, International Peacekeeping 12(1): 125–145.
McWilliam, A. (2005). Houses of resistance in East Timor: Structuring sociality in the new nation, Anthropological Forum 15(1): 27–44.
McWilliam, A. (2007). Introduction: Restorative custom: Ethnographic perspectives on conflict and local justice in Timor, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 8(1): 1–8.
McWilliam, A. (2015). Rural-urban inequalities and migration in Timor-Leste. In S. Ingram et al. 2015, pp. 225–234.
Meitzner Yoder, L. (2015). The development eraser: Fantastical schemes, aspirational distractions and high modern mega-events in the Oecusse enclave, Timor-Leste, Journal of Political Ecology 22: 299–321.
Moxham, B. (2008). State-making and the post-conflict city: Integration in Dili, disintegration in Timor-Leste, London: Crisis States Working Papers, no. 2, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics.
Mubyarto, S., Hudiyanto, L., Djatmiko, E., Setiawati, I., and Mawarni, A. (1991). East Timor: The Impact of Integration, Australia: Gadjah Mada University Research Centre for Village and Regional Development and Indonesian Resources and Information Program.
Murdoch, L. (2008) “Timor collides with its future,” The Sydney Morning Herald, November 22.
Niner, S. (2000). To Resist is to Win: The autobiography of Xanana Gusmão, Richmond, Victoria: Aurora Books.
Nolan, C. (2015). After Xanana: Challenges for stability. In S. Ingram et al. 2015, pp. 155–168.
Nygaard-Christensen, M. (2016). Timor-Leste in 2015: Petro-politics or sustainable growth, Southeast Asian Affairs 2016, Singapore: ISEAS, pp. 347–359.
Pushkina, D., and Maier, P. (2012). United Nations Peace-keeping in Timor-Leste, Civil Wars 14(3): 324–343.
Rees, E. (2002). Security sector reform and transitional administrations, Conflict, Security and Development 2(1): 151–156.
Rees, E. (2004). Under pressure: Falintil – Forças de Defesa de Timor Leste: Three decades of defence force development in Timor Leste, 1975–2004, Geneva: Working Paper No. 139, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces.
Robinson, G. (2010). “If you leave us here we will die”: How genocide was stopped in East Timor, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Robinson, G. (2011). East Timor ten years on: Legacies of violence, Journal of Asian Studies 70(4): 1007–1021.
Rohland, K., and Cliffe, S. (2002). The East Timor reconstruction program: Successes, problems and tradeoffs, World Bank Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction Unit Working Paper Series no. 2, November.
Roosa, J. (2007). How does a truth commission find out what the truth is? The case of East Timor’s CAVR, Pacific Affairs 80(4): 569–80.
Sahe Institute for Liberation (2003). “Memerdekakan rakyat setelah memperoleh tanah air,” Libertasan 2.
Scambary, J. (2007). Disaffected groups and social movements in East Timor, unpublished research paper for AusAID.
Scambary, J. (2009). Anatomy of a conflict: the 2006–2007 communal violence in East Timor, Conflict, Security & Development, 9(2): 265–288.
Scambary, J. (2015). In search of white elephants: The political economy of resource income expenditure in East Timor, Critical Asian Studies, 47(2): 283–308.
Scheiner, C. (2015). Can the petroleum fund exorcise the resource curse from Timor-Leste. In S. Ingram et al. 2015, pp. 73–101.
Schofield, C. (2007). Minding the gap: The Australia-East Timor treaty on certain maritime arrangements in the Timor Sea (CMATS), The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 22(2); 189–234.
Shoesmith, D. (2003). Timor-Leste: Divided leadership in a semi-presidential system, Asian Survey, 43(2): 231–252.
Shoesmith, D. (2011). Timor-Leste: On the path to peace and prosperity? In Southeast Asian Affairs 2011, Singapore: ISEAS, pp. 332–335.
Shoesmith, D. (2017). Timor-Leste in 2016: Redefining democracy. In Southeast Asian Affairs 2017, Singapore: ISEAS, pp. 387–404.
Sidel, J. (2015). Sojourn symposium review essay, Sojourn 30(1): 256–261.
Simonsen, S. (2006). The authoritarian temptation in East Timor: Nationbuilding and the need for inclusive governance, Asian Survey, 46(4): 575–596.
Smith, A. (2004). Timor-Leste: Strong government, weak state. In Southeast Asian Affairs 2004, Singapore: ISEAS, pp. 279–294.
Soares, A. (2015). A social movement as an antidote to corruption. In S. Ingram et al. 2015, pp. 203–212.
Soares, A. (2004). Peranan gerakan bawah tanah dalam proses perjuangan pembebasan nasional Timor-Leste (studi kasus di sub-region Viquque wilayah Baucau dan Viqueque dari tahun 1979–1994), BA thesis, Universitas Nasional Timor-Leste.
Sousa, I. (2001). The Portuguese colonization and the problem of East Timorese nationalism, Lusotropie 2001: 183–194.
Suhrke, A. (2001). Peacekeepers as nation-builders: Dilemmas of the UN in East Timor, International Peacekeeping 8(4): 1–20.
Timor-Leste Armed Violence Assessment 1 (2008), Dealing with the Kilat.
Traube, E. (2007). Unpaid wages: Local narratives and the imagination of the nation, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 8(1): 9–25.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2006). Report of the United Nations Independent Special Commission of Inquiry for Timor-Leste, Geneva: UNHCHR.
Wallis, J. (2012). A liberal-local hybrid peace project in action? The increasing engagement between the local and the liberal in Timor-Leste, Review of International Studies 38(4): 735–761.
Wallis, J. (2015). Assessing the implementation and impact of Timor-Leste’s cash payment schemes. In S. Ingram et al. 2015, pp. 235–249.
Wilson, B. (2012). To 2012 and beyond: international assistance to police and security sector development, Asia Politics and Policy 4(1): 73–88.