"Is Timor-Leste a Failed State?" http://bit.ly/jRAk1
Portuguese Journal of International Affairs
Is Timor-Leste a Failed State?
Timor-Leste displays signs of political, military and social instability, and it is critical to understand if it is indeed a failed state or just, as the former European Parliament member José Ribeiro e Castro put it, "a state with failings". The answer to this question will influence the options of the various internal and external actors.
This article begins with a short overview of the nature of failed states -- terminology, defining characteristics and causes. It is followed by an analysis of existing and potential failed states. Since there is a clear link between the nature of the political regime and state malfunction, the subsequent paragraphs will focus, albeit in a non-exhaustive fashion, on a few political, military, judicial and economic aspects essential to addressing the final answer.
PJIA 1, Paulo Gorjão and André Monteiro, Is Timor-Leste a failed state?
http://www.ipris.org/php/download.php?fid=386
The Dragon and the Crocodile: Chinese Interests in East Timor
The article is structured in the following manner: in the first section the role of People's Republic of China will be considered through the prism of bipolarity: whether the Chinese method is perceived as an exercise of extending soft power, or as a source of what is described as a new "Cold War" with the United States via Australia. In the second section, a historical framework -- based on the tenet that support of the developing world is a constant of the Chinese foreign policy since the Cold War -- traces relations between China and Timor from 1975 to the present. The third section focuses on the foreign policy pillars: trade and aid; the role of the Lusofonia connection will also be analyzed. In the last section, a summary of the most recent facts concerning political and economic relations between the two countries will be provided.
PJIA 1, Nuno Canas Mendes, Chinese Interests in East Timor
http://www.ipris.org/php/download.php?fid=384
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