How to Help Neighbours?: Lessons for India
First published as “How to help neighbours” in The Indian Express under the author's “East of India” column on July 7, 2006. Reprinted from The Indian Express with permission of Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Limited © 2006.
The political turmoil in Timor Leste, which has led to the ouster of its Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri and plans for national elections for a new government, may not be exactly hot news to Indians, but it underlies a growing debate about intervention in domestic political conflicts in Southeast Asia that nations of South Asian policymakers should be familiar with.