As good as it gets?: Stateness and democracy in East Timor
The chapter analyses the simultaneous state-building and democratization process in East Asia’s newest sovereign nation-state. Since 2002, East Timor has strived to create a democratic and effective state out of the ashes of colonial rule, armed conflict and foreign occupation. With the assistance o...
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| Format: | Chapter/Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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Stateness and democracy in East Asia
Year: 2020, Pages: 204-232 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781108862783.009 |
| Online Access: | Resolving-System, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108862783.009 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/stateness-and-democracy-in-east-asia/as-good-as-it-gets-stateness-and-democracy-in-east-timor/671999E5F01191C148F774F922B36102 
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| Author Notes: | Aurel Croissant, Rebecca Abu Sharkh |
| Summary: | The chapter analyses the simultaneous state-building and democratization process in East Asia’s newest sovereign nation-state. Since 2002, East Timor has strived to create a democratic and effective state out of the ashes of colonial rule, armed conflict and foreign occupation. With the assistance of the United Nations (UN), East Timor has thus undergone a process of simultaneous state and democracy building. Despite tremendous challenges, democracy has been surprisingly resilient against a number of severe crises. East Timor thereby represents a highly unusual mix of a fragile stateness but, given the circumstances, a relatively resilient (though, low-quality) democracy. This chapter investigates the reasons for and the implications of this surprising combination. In so doing, the chapter demonstrates that democratization and democracy have contributed to further consolidation of nation-building and statehood in East Timor. At the same time, however, limited stateness is one of the main reasons why democracy remains of low quality. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 20.04.2021 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9781108862783 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781108862783.009 |