Against the Grain
The East Timor Intervention
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10801850 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Cotton (0000-0002-0371-6595, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 127-142 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Survival (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-6338 • E-ISSN: 1468-2699 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00396330112331343015 |
| OpenAlex | W1979667613 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 1 |
The principle of non-interference is an integral part of the ‘Asian Way’. Countries of the region have doggedly opposed any suggestion that state sovereignty should be softened by a new doctrine of ‘humanitarian intervention’. The participation of some of these countries in the 1999 intervention in East Timor – an action sanctioned by the United Nations for specifically humanitarian purposes – was thus out of character. But this departure, far from reflecting a re-evaluation of the doctrine, was a consequence of specific historical and political factors. Most important of these was the fact that the UN had never accepted the Indonesian incorporation of the territory as legitimate. Once the United States adopted a more critical attitude, after Australia pressured Indonesia to test local opinion on East Timor’s future, the internationalisation of the issue became inevitable. In the aftermath of the postballot militia violence, Indonesia’s uncertain transitional leadership could not resist calls for an intervention by peacekeepers. There are certainly lessons in the East Timor case for coalition operations and other interventions in the region. But the actions of the Australia-led coalition do not indicate a wider regional acceptance of the norm of humanitarian intervention
Development economics · Doctrine · Humanitarian intervention · Indonesian · International law · Intervention (counseling · Norm (philosophy · Peacekeeping · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Responsibility to Protect · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics · Psychology
Fataluku medicinal ethnobotany and the East Timorese military resistance
Third World Perspectives on Humanitarian Intervention and International Administration
Australia ́s Commitment in East Timor
Humanitarian Intervention
Asia-Pacific Security
The origin of trilateralism? The US–Japan–Australia security relations in the 1990s
Churchill in Munich
Ten Years After
Ending Mass Atrocities
Libya and the state of intervention
Sino–American relations and the ‘Australian factor’
The ‘arc of instability’ and Australia's strategic policy
New Zealand’s alliance obligations in a China-Australia war
The Utility of Human Security
The West Papua issue in Pacific regional politics
Security and Sovereignty in the Asia‐Pacific
The United Nations in East Timor
The Legacy and Lessons of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor
Diffusing Regional Integration
| Citations per year | 0.76 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2023 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |