Reluctant saviour

Description:

"Over many years successive Australian governments, supported by an influential network of pro-Jakarta lobbyists, worked assiduously to preserve Indonesian sovereignty over East Timor. Yet in September 1999 the Howard government took the lead in assembling a multinational peacekeeping force to guarantee East Timor's independence. Reluctant Saviour explains why."--Jacket.

subjects: Armed Forces,  Autonomy and independence movements,  East Timor,  Foreign relations,  History,  Operations other than war,  Peacekeeping forces,  Australian Peacekeeping forces,  Timor-Leste,  Politics,  Asian studies,  Australian studies,  Australia, politics and government,  Australia, foreign relations

Places: Australia,  East Timor,  Indonesia