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Osttimors fragile Staatlichkeit
East Timor’s Fragile Statehood
[journal article]
Abstract The Failed States Index 2007 ranked East Timor, or Timor-Leste, place 20 of 177 states worldwide.
Thus the Southeast Asian state is considered to be in serious danger of becoming a failed state. The
rating is based on data sets from May to December 2006. Since Mid-2007 the country is governed
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The Failed States Index 2007 ranked East Timor, or Timor-Leste, place 20 of 177 states worldwide.
Thus the Southeast Asian state is considered to be in serious danger of becoming a failed state. The
rating is based on data sets from May to December 2006. Since Mid-2007 the country is governed
by the duo Ramos-Horta/Gusmao. The Fretelin party, blamed by the Western press for the crisis,
was voted out of power. Against this background this articles examines if there are any signs that
the new government could end the enduring crisis. What are the chances that East Timor will
improve its ratings in the Failed States Index 2008? To answer this question the nine problem
areas highlighted in the index will be analysed in search for progress. These are: group conflicts,
Internally Displaced Persons, delegitimization of the state, factionalized elites, security apparatus,
external intervention, economic decline, deterioration of public services, demographic pressures.
Although in nearly all of these categories progress has been made, the country is still far from
being stable.... view less
Keywords
state formation; constitutional state; human rights violation; legitimation; national development; East-Timor; statehood; displaced person; elite; population development; ethnic conflict; failed state; refugee
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Document language
German
Publication Year
2007
Page/Pages
p. 67-78
Journal
Südostasien aktuell : journal of current Southeast Asian affairs, 26 (2007) 6
ISSN
1868-4882
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works