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Tan, Lena.

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Disengaging from territory: Identity, the politics of contestation and domestic political structures. India & Britain (1929--1935), and Indonesia & East Timor (1975--1999).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Disengaging from territory: Identity, the politics of contestation and domestic political structures. India & Britain (1929--1935), and Indonesia & East Timor (1975--1999)./
Author:	Tan, Lena.
Description:	287 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Peter M. Haas.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-11A.
Subject:	History, Asia, Australia and Oceania. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3289262
ISBN:	9780549330714

Disengaging from territory: Identity, the politics of contestation and domestic political structures. India & Britain (1929--1935), and Indonesia & East Timor (1975--1999).
Tan, Lena.

Disengaging from territory: Identity, the politics of contestation and domestic political structures. India & Britain (1929--1935), and Indonesia & East Timor (1975--1999). - 287 p.

Adviser: Peter M. Haas.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2007.

This dissertation project examines the role of identity, the politics of identity contestation and domestic political structures as part of the mechanisms and processes that may be involved in the decisions that states make regarding disengagement from their colonial and territorial possessions. Specifically, it focuses on the following questions: Why do intransigent states back down on previously entrenched territorial policies? And why, even when states decide to disengage from their territories, are some of these processes peaceful while others are scenes of prolonged, bloody and violent struggles? Focusing on Britain and its reaction to Indian calls for independence from 1929-1935, and Indonesia's withdrawal from East Timor in 1999, this project argues that the processes and mechanisms involved in identity construction, maintenance and change can play an important role in how states approach the issue of territorial disengagement. At the same time, it also argues that the structure of a state's domestic political system may also affect the way in which disengagement takes places.

ISBN: 9780549330714Subjects--Topical Terms:

626624
History, Asia, Australia and Oceania.

Disengaging from territory: Identity, the politics of contestation and domestic political structures. India & Britain (1929--1935), and Indonesia & East Timor (1975--1999).
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