Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000 - 2017

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Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000 - 2017 is written by James Scambary and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004396799 (ISBN 10) and 9789004396791 (ISBN 13).

In Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000-2017, James Scambary analyses the complex interplay between local and national level conflict and politics in the independence period. Communal conflict, often enacted by a variety of informal groups such as gangs and martial arts groups, has been a constant feature of East Timor’s post-independence landscape. A focus on statebuilding, however, in academic discourse has largely overlooked this conflict, and the informal networks that drive Timorese politics and society. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork, Scambary documents the range of different cultural and historical dynamics and identities that drive conflict, and by which local conflicts and non-state actors became linked to national conflict, and laid the foundations of a clientelist state.