Across many parts of the postcolonial world, it is everyday reality for people to cross regularly between state-based and customary governance, institutions and

Across many parts of the postcolonial world, it is everyday reality for people to cross regularly between state-based and customary governance, institutions and

This book offers a new approach to the extraordinary story of Timor-Leste. The Indonesian invasion of the former Portuguese colony in 1975 was widely considered

Comparative analysis of case studies across East Asia provides new insights into the relationship between state building, stateness, and democracy.

In Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000-2017, James Scambary analyses the complex interplay between local and national level conflict and