TY  - Report





PY  - 2013
T1  - Timor-Leste: stability at what cost?
PB  - International Crisis Group


DO  - https://doi.org/APO-34057
UR  - https://apo.org.au/node/34057

AB  - UN peacekeepers withdrew from Timor-Leste  in December 2012, ending a thirteen-year presence after two successful  elections underscored the country’s continued stability. Pragmatic  decisions by local leaders after the 2006 crisis to use swelling  petroleum industry revenues to buy peace have paid dividends. But that  strategy rests on three anchors: the authority of the current prime  minister; the deferral of institutional reforms in the security sector;  and the flow of oil and gas revenues from the Timor Sea.
ER  -