‘‘We have resisted, now we must build’’: Regionalism and nation-building in Timor-Leste
© 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�...
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| description | © 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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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-560882017-09-13T16:09:55Z ‘‘We have resisted, now we must build’’: Regionalism and nation-building in Timor-Leste Shiosaki, Elfie © 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. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56088 10.1017/S0022463416000473 National University of Singapore restricted |
| spellingShingle | Shiosaki, Elfie ‘‘We have resisted, now we must build’’: Regionalism and nation-building in Timor-Leste |
| title | ‘‘We have resisted, now we must build’’: Regionalism and nation-building in Timor-Leste |
| title_full | ‘‘We have resisted, now we must build’’: Regionalism and nation-building in Timor-Leste |
| title_fullStr | ‘‘We have resisted, now we must build’’: Regionalism and nation-building in Timor-Leste |
| title_full_unstemmed | ‘‘We have resisted, now we must build’’: Regionalism and nation-building in Timor-Leste |
| title_short | ‘‘We have resisted, now we must build’’: Regionalism and nation-building in Timor-Leste |
| title_sort | ‘‘we have resisted, now we must build’’: regionalism and nation-building in timor-leste |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56088 |