(Post-)colonial state-building and state failure in East Timor: bringing social conflict back inFootnote

Lee Jones (DPhil, Oxford) is Lecturer in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. His work focuses on the politics of sovereignty and intervention in developing countries. He is currently completing a book on (non)intervention by ASEAN states, and will soon embark on a new project on economic sanctions.

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