Ten years after: (Re) assessing neo-trusteeship and UN state-building in Timor-Leste

International Studies Perspectives

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 85-104

  Butler, Michael J ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPERIALISM; POLITICAL CONFLICT; POST-MODERNISM; RESEARCH; STATE BUILDING; UNITED NATIONS;

LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; SUNDA ISLES; TIMOR; TIMOR-LESTE;

EID: 84855819324     PISSN: 15283577     EISSN: 15283585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-3585.2011.00443.x     Document Type: Article

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