Triumph of Self-Determination: Operation Stabilise and United Nations Peacemaking in East Timor

by John R. Ballard

Based on first-person accounts, interviews, declassified documents, and secondary background sources, this book gives readers insight into the significant actions and innovative techniques of the struggle for East Timorese independence from 1999 to 2006. The book begins with a two-chapter historical overview of the circumstances that caused the United Nations to intervene in East Timor in 1999, and then continues with a detailed account of the referendum...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313348413
• ISBN13: 9780313348419
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"