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Abstract
Newly independent Timor Leste provides a unique case study of the difficulties of developing a civil service in a fragile state. We show the UN and other bodies have attempted to develop a reasonably traditional Weberian legal/rational type civil service, but that many difficulties remain.
Highlights
On 29 October 1999 Indonesian forces abandoned the former Portuguese colony of East Timor after 24 years of remarkably brutal and genocidal occupation
The previous United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) which ran from June - October 1999 was a political mission to establish the referendum that established Timorese independence, and largely fled during the 1999 troubles
United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTEAT), above, was superseded by the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET), which was a peace keeping mission to provide assistance to the newly independent Timor. This ran from May 2002 - May 2005. This was superseded by the ‘political mission’ the United Nations Office in Timor-Leste (UNOTIL) which ran from May 2005—August 2006 to provide support for the development of governance and democracy
Summary
On 29 October 1999 Indonesian forces abandoned the former Portuguese colony of East Timor after 24 years of remarkably brutal and genocidal occupation. East Timor became a UN colony, with governance and judicial power assumed by the United Nations authority, and progressively shared with Timorese elites until independence in 2002, when its official name became Timor Leste. This mission has been superseded by three other UN missions, providing for some confusing acronyms. UNTEAT, above, was superseded by the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET), which was a peace keeping mission to provide assistance to the newly independent Timor This ran from May 2002 - May 2005.
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