Research Catalog

Title

Diplomatic deceits : government, media, and East Timor / Rodney Tiffen.

Author

Tiffen, Rodney

Publication

Sydney, NSW, Australia : UNSW Press, 2001.

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Description

xii, 128 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"This book examines the changing character of media coverage of East Timor and the shifts in Australian diplomacy and public opinion. Taking events up to the release of new Foreign Affairs documents in late 2000, it is the first detailed account of how diplomatic imperatives, domestic political controversies and news coverage unfolded during Australia's greatest foreign policy disaster of the last quarter of a century."--Jacket.

Subject

• Australia > Foreign relations > Indonesia
• Indonesia > Foreign relations > Australia
• Timor-Leste > Press coverage > Australia
• Timor-Leste > Autonomy and independence movements
• Timor-Leste > Politics and government
• Timor-Leste > Annexation to Indonesia
• Timor-Leste > Press coverage
• Australia > Foreign relations > Timor-Leste
• Timor-Leste > Foreign relations > Australia
• Australia > Foreign relations > 1945-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-124) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Chris Masters -- 1. Introduction: Neither principled nor pragmatic -- 2. Pre-emption and containment: Pre-invasion politics 1974-75 -- 3. The politics of inevitability: 1976-91 -- 4. The issue that would not die: After the Dili massacre -- 5. Triumph and tragedy: 1999 -- 6. After intervention: Politics as usual -- 7. Tangled agendas: Diplomatic pragmatism and democratic politics.

ISBN

086840571X

OCLC

• 46917211
• SCSB-10459325

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library