Parties, personalities and political power: legacies of liberal peace-building in Timor-Leste

@article{Ingram2018PartiesPA,  title={Parties, personalities and political power: legacies of liberal peace-building in Timor-Leste},  author={Sue Ingram},  journal={Conflict, Security \& Development},  year={2018},  volume={18},  pages={365 - 386},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:149690926}}
ABSTRACT This article examines the tension between liberal peace-building and local political culture through the lens of party and personality politics in Timor-Leste. It argues that the efforts of the UN peacekeeping mission to promote multi-party democracy cut across the interests of two opposing political forces: the charismatic resistance leader, Xanana Gusmão, who was deeply suspicious of party politics and favoured supra-partisan coalitions; and the dominant political party, FRETILIN… 
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