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Third world colonialism and strategies of liberation : Eritrea and East Timor compared /
Shows how Eritrea and East Timor developed sophisticated strategies to liberate their countries from colonialism, and emphasizes that these insurgencies avoided terrorism.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Third World Colonialism and Strategies of Liberation: Eritrea and East Timor Compared; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Imperialism by Adjacency and Colonialism; Grand Strategy and the Global South; State Terrorism and the Restraint of Nonstate Opponents; Colonial Nationalism Reified; Imperial Roots and Colonial Origins of the Recolonizers and the Recolonized; The Ethiopian Empire; Recolonizing the "Firstborn" Italian Colony of Eritrea; Modern Indonesia: Srivijayas Successor?; East Timor: From Portugals Colony to Indonesias "Orphan"; Conclusion.
- I Swaggering Empires and Defiant "New Provinces"The Cold War Curse; Cold War Eritrea: Bullets for Rejecting a Merger with Ethiopia; Cold War East Timor; Domestic Conditions Surrounding the Outbreak of Open Resistance; Fluctuating Eritrean Waters; East Timors Strong Political Base; Early Phases of Eritrean and East Timorese Resistance; Escalating Resistance and Attendant Challenges in Eritrea; Crumbling of Conventional Defense Strategy in East Timor; Conclusion; 2 Bittersweet Replicas of Foreign Experiences and Reform; Root Causes for Eritrean Reform and East Timorese Reorientation.
- From Haphazard to Strategic: Faulty Eritrean InitiativeElusive Reform of ELF Zonal Command and Bifurcation of the Eritrean Movement; Birth of a Secret Party and the Immediate Causes of Breakup; Ineffectual Experiment of the East Timorese Resistance; Inception and End of Guerrilla Support Bases; The Fall of Resistance Superstructures and Leadership; Conclusion; 3 Toward Reorganization and Reorientation: Eritrean Fragmentation and East Timorese Near Defeat; Decisive Structural Factors; Ethiopian and Indonesian Counterinsurgencies; "We Need Eritrea for Its Land, Not Its People."
- Indonesian Elite Consensus Falls Short of VictoryThe Backlash of Genocidal Invasion and Occupation; Indonesian Approach to Counterinsurgency in East Timor; Indonesia Kills Surrendering Insurgents and Commits Many Abuses; Surviving and Moving Beyond the Challenges: Eritrean Splinter Groups Coalesce into a Maoist Movement; Splinter Groups Unify around Secular, Inclusive Philosophy; Surviving and Moving Beyond the Challenges: East Timorese Resistance from the Jaws of Defeat; Conclusion; 4 Victims of Their Own Success: The Revitalized Nationalist Movements and Their Challenges.
- Rivalry and Balance of Power among Eritrean NationalistsThe ELF's Strategic Oblivion and Lethal Internecine Squabbles; The Onset of Internal Cohesion and Self-Reliance; Eritrean Insurgents Go on the Offensive; Ethiopian Realignment that Shifted the Balance of Power; Developments in East Timor and Within the Resistance Movement; The Catholic Church in East Timor Protests; Fostering the Churchs Sympathy into Active Support; The Indonesians Hone Their Intelligence about the Insurgency; Seeking International Recognition; Internal Friction and Innocuous Divisions among Guerrilla Leaders.