Abstract
The struggle of the Timorese people for their self-determination can be seen as a cut with two major legacies of legal-policial modernity that severely narrowed the scope of international solidarity: positivism and Westphalian order. The post-positivist character of the Timorese case is analyzed in this essay as emerging from the supremacy of legitimacy over faits accomplis, the supremacy of legal order over geopolitics and the supremacy of multilateralism over efficiency. On the other side, the post-Westphalian nature of this struggle evidences the crucial role that grassroots solidarity groups at the international level and of some friendly states in the diplomatic arena can play as actors of a counter-hegemonic global political agenda.
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