Third World Colonialism and Strategies of Liberation : Eritrea and East Timor Compared (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. Swaggering empires and defiant 'new provinces'; 2. Bittersweet replicas of foreign experiences and reform; 3. Toward reorganization and reorientation: Eritrean fragmentation and East Timorese near-defeat; 4. Victims of their own success: the revitalized nationalist movements and their challenges; 5. Eritrean and East Timorese diplomacy of liberation; 6. To Asmara through Addis Ababa and Dili via Jakarta; 7. Winning insurgencies and counterinsurgencies in a changing global order; 8. The promise and quandary of 'infusing fresh blood' and 'inaugurating new politics'; Conclusion.