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East Timor and the United Nations


All Resources: East Timor and the United Nations
Ruth Wedgwood

 

Selected Bibliography

Articles

Ball, Desmond. "Silent Witness: Australian Intelligence and East Timor." Pacific Review 14 (2001): 35-62.

Chesterman, Simon. "East Timor in Transition: From Conflict Prevention to State-Building." International Peace Academy, May 2001, available at http://www.ipacademy.org/Publications/Reports/Research/PublRepoEastTimor_body.htm.

Chinkin, Christine. "The Merits of Portugal's Claim against Australia." University of New South Wales Law Journal 15 (1992): 423.

Chinkin, Christine. "East Timor Moves into the World Court," 4 European Journal of International Law 4 (1993): 206-222, available at http://www.ejil.org/journal/Vol4/No2/art4.html.

Chopra, Jaret. "The UN's Kingdom of East Timor." Survival 42(3) (2000): 27-40, available at http://www3.oup.co.uk/surviv/hdb/Volume_42/Issue_03/pdf/420027.pdf (subscription required).

Clark, Roger. "East Timor, Indonesia and the International Community." Temple International and Comparative Law Journal 14 (2000): 75-87.

Cotton, James. "The Emergence of an Independent East Timor: National and Regional Challenges." Contemporary Southeast Asia 22 (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, April 1, 2000): 1, available in LEXIS.

Franck, Thomas and Paul Hoffman. "The Right to Self-Determination in Very Small Places." New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 8 (1976): 331-386.

Hadi, Soesastro. "East Timor, Questions of Economic Viability." in Unity and Diversity: Regional Economic Development in Indonesia since 1970, ed. Hal Hill, 207-229. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Linton, S. "Rising from the Ashes: The Creation of a Viable Criminal Justice System in East Timor." Melbourne University Law Review 25 (2000): 122-180, available at http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MULR/2001/5.html.

Ong, David. "The Legal Status of the Timor Gap Treaty Post-Referendum: Is Joint Development Mandated by International Law?" Paper presented at "International Legal Challenges for the 21st Century," Joint Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law and the American Society of International Law, Sydney and Canberra, June 26-29, 2000.

Quarterman, Mark. "Indonesian Compliance Regarding East Timor: The Role of International Leverage" (2001) (on file with author).

Ruffert, M. "The Administration of Kosovo and East Timor by the International Community." International and Comparative Law Quarterly 50 (2001): 613-631, available at http://www3.oup.co.uk/iclqaj/current/pdf/500613.pdf (subscription may be required).

Schreuer, Christophe. "East Timor and the United Nations." International Law Forum 2 (2000): 18-25, available at http://www.wkap.nl/article.pdf?264841 (subscription may be required).

Shearer, Ivan. "A Pope, Two Presidents and a Prime Minister." Address to the International Law Association, American Branch, International Law Weekend, New York, Oct. 27, 2000.

Strohmeyer, Hansjorg. "Collapse and Reconstruction of a Judicial System: The United Nations Missions in Kosovo and in East Timor." American Journal of International Law 95 (2001): 46-63, available at http://www.asil.org/ajil/recon4.pdf.

Telkamp, Gerard. "The Economic Structure of an Outpost in the Outer Island in the Indonesian Archipelago: Portuguese Timor 1850-1975," in Between Peoples and Statistics - Essays on Modern Indonesian History, ed. P. Creutzberg, 78-. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff 1979.

Triggs, Gillian. "Legal and Commercial Risks of Investment in the Timor Gap." Melbourne Journal of International Law 1 (2000): 98-129, available at http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/mjil/issues/archive/2000/08_Trigg.pdf.

Traub, James. "Inventing East Timor." Foreign Affairs 79 (July/August 2000): 74-89, available at http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/etimor/traub.htm.

Wedgwood, Ruth. "Trouble in Timor."(reply to James Traub), Foreign Affairs 79 (September/October 2000): 197-199, available at http://www.etan.org/et2000c/october/22-31/25troubl.htm.

Wedgwood, Ruth and Harold K. Jacobson, eds., 'Symposium: State Reconstruction After Civil Conflict," American Journal of International Law 95 (January 2001): 1-119, available at http://www.asil.org/ajil/ajil011.htm.

Reports

Amnesty International. East Timor Violations of Human Rights - Extrajudicial Executions, "Disappearances," Torture and Political Imprisonment, 1975-1974. London, 1985.

---. Power and Impunity: Human Rights under the New Order. London, 1994.

Asia Watch. Human Rights in Indonesia and East Timor. New York, 1989.

---. Injustice, Persecution, Eviction: A Human Rights Update on Indonesia and East Timor. New York, 1990.

Catholic Institute for International Relations/International Platform for Jurists in East Timor, International law and the Question of East Timor. Nottingham, 1995.

Centre for Defence Studies, King's College, London. Independent Study on Security Force Options and Security Sector Reform for East Timor

National Council of Timorese Resistance, Outcomes of the CNRT National Congress, 21st to 30th August 2000. Dili, East Timor, 2000.

Parliament of Commonwealth of Australia, Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. The Human Rights and Conditions of the People of East Timor. Canberra, 1983.

Republic of Indonesia, Department of Foreign Affairs and Department of Information. Government Statements on the East Timor Question. Jakarta, 1975.

---. The Province of East Timor: Development in Progress. Jakarta, 1981.

Books

Ball, Desmond and Helen Wilson, eds. Strange Neighbors: The Australia-Indonesia Relationship. North Sydney, NSW:Allen & Unwin Australia, 1991.

Carey, Peter and G. Carter Bentley, eds.. East Timor at the Crossroads: The Forging of a Nation. London: Cassell, 1995.

Dunn, James. Timor, A People Betrayed. Milton, Queensland: Jacaranda Press, 1983.

Krieger, Heike, ed. East Timor and the International Community: Basic Documents. Cambridge International Documents Series, Research Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press/Grotius, 1997.

Hill, Helen. FRETILIN, The Origins, Ideologies and Strategies of a Nationalist Movement in East Timor. Otford, Australia, Otford Press, 2001. (see http://www.otfordpress.com.au/contemporary/cfretilincircle.html)

Jolliffe, Jill. East Timor, Nationalism and Colonialism. St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1978.

Ramos-Horta, José. Funu: The Unfinished Saga of East Timor. Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press,1987.

Skjelsbaek, Kjell. Between Self-Determination and Realpolitik: The Role of the United Nations in the Crisis in East Timor. Oslo: NUPI, 1987.

Taylor, John. East Timor: The Price of Freedom. London: Zed Books, 1999.

Weatherbee, Donald. The Situation in East Timor. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1980.

U.N. and International Law Documents

United Nations. General Assembly. Declaration on Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. GA/Res. 1514 (XV). Dec. 14, 1960, available at http://www.un.org/peace/etimor/docs/a1514xv.pdf.

United Nations. Security Council. Security Council Resolution 384 (calling on Indonesia to withdraw forces from East Timor). Dec. 22, 1975, available at http://www.un.org/peace/etimor/docs/sres384.pdf.

Agreement between the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Government of the Republic of Indonesia on the Zone of Cooperation in an Area between the Indonesian Province of East Timor and Northern Australia, Dec. 11, 1989, [1991] ATS No. 3, International Legal Materials 29: 469 (entered into force Feb. 9, 1991)("Timor Gap Treaty"), available at http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/treaties/1991/9.html.

International Court of Justice. Case Concerning East Timor (Portugal v. Australia), Judgment of June 30, 1995 [1995]. ICJ Reports 90, available at http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/icases/ipa/ipaframe.htm.

"Agreement between the Republic of Indonesia and the Portuguese Republic on the question of East Timor," reprinted in Report of the Secretary-General, Question of East Timor, A/53/951 (May 5 1999) Annex, available at http://www.un.org/peace/etimor/docs/a53951.htm and http://www.un.org/peace/etimor/docs/a53951.pdfand http://www.un.org/peace/etimor/docs/26-29.pdf.

United Nations. Secretary General. Report of the Secretary General on the Question of East Timor, A/53/951, S/1999.595 (May 22, 1999), available at http://www.un.org/peace/etimor/docs/s99595.htm.

United Nations. International Commission of Inquiry on East Timor. Report of the International Commission of Inquiry on East Timor to the Secretary General, UN Doc. A/54/726, S/2000/59 (January 31, 2000).

United Nations. Security Council Authorizes Multinational Force in East Timor. UN Press Release SC/6727 (Sept. 15, 1999), available at http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/1999/19990915.sc6727.doc.html.

United Nations. Security Council. Security Council Resolution 1272, S/RES/1272 (1999) (established UNTAET), 39 International Legal Materials 39 (1999): 240), also available at http://www.un.org/peace/etimor/docs/9931277E.htm.

United Nations. Transitional Administration in East Timor and the World Bank. Background Paper for Donors' Meeting on East Timor, Lisbon, June 22-23, 2000, available at http://www.gov.east-timor.org/donors/lisbon.pdf.

United Nations. Special Representative of the Secretary General, Sergio Vieira de Mello. Opening Address to East Timor Donors Conference. Lisbon, June 22-23, 2000, available at http://www.gov.east-timor.org/donors/demello.php.

United Nations. Building Blocks for a Nation: [United Nations] Common Country Assessment for East Timor. November, 2000, available at http://www.undp.east-timor.org/publications/Cca.pdf.

Web Sites

Canadian Forces College, Information Resource Centre, War, Peace, and Security Guide, Contemporary conflicts: East Timor, at: http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/wars/timor.html.

East Timor Action Network web site: http://www.etan.org.

East Timor Update (UNTAET Office of Communication and Public Information). Available on UNTAET web site: http://www.un.org/peace/etimor/untaetR/UntaetR.htm.

TAIS TIMOR (local newspaper published by UNTAET). Available on UNTAET web site: http://www.un.org/peace/etimor/untaetR/UntaetR.htm.

UNDP web site for UN agencies in East Timor: http://www.unagencies.east-timor.org. Web site on East Timor governance and political administration, with links to government departments: http://www.gov.east-timor.org.

 

Audio/Visual Resources

Jose Ramos-Horta on 1999 Post-Election Violence (RealAudio)

Map of East and West Timor

Picture of Jose Ramos-Horta

Picture of Congressman Patrick Kennedy with Bishop Belo

Pictures of East Timor

World Bank Photo Gallery: East Timor

Map of East Timor

 

Online Resources

TimorNet: An Information Service on East Timor

Human Rights Watch on East Timor

Welcome to East Timor

Media Release from East Timor and Australia on Resources in Timor Sea

Reports on East Timor

Regulations in East Timor

UN and Decolonization (Declaration of Decolonization included)

IMF Report on Economic Developments in East Timor

Current UN Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor

Amnesty International: Indonesia and East Timor


Amnesty International: East Timor Crisis


UN Security Council on East Timor