Index
advantages
3, 56, 126
AEC
ASEAN Economic Community
38
alliance
26, 43, 65, 79, 80
ambivalence
33, 50, 102, 121, 125
amity
10, 114, 135, 143, 175
anthropology
1, 5, 48, 76, 90, 135, 146, 177
APEC
Asia Pacific Economic Community
16
ASEAN
1, 11, 25, 47, 76, 100, 133, 157, 183
ASEAN pillars
37, 137
centrality
1, 22, 42, 100, 142, 157, 172, 187
civil society
145
Civil Society
5
community
18, 122, 136
golden link
158
identity
117
three pillars
37, 65
Asia Pacific
APF
29
Asia-Pacific
17, 39, 63, 121, 148
Australia
11, 25, 63, 95, 100, 144, 164
Australian
63, 90
belonging
41, 94, 122, 151
beyond borders
151
big man
103, 124
bilateral
1, 15, 41, 56, 158,
bilateralism
11, 161
bottom-up
4, 129, 134, 175
bottom-up and top-down
2, 152
brother
30, 75, 117, 140
abroad
143
elders
80
younger
5, 80, 107, 140
brothers
93, 117, 142
centralities
1, 42, 155, 174
Centralities and Peripheries
9
centrality
construction
4, 42, 130, 157, 173
China
4, 12, 28, 52, 84, 100, 157
Chinese
39, 55, 126, 156
community
9
China Sea
13, 129
Chinese
9
civil society
4, 55, 104, 128, 142
civilization
48, 80, 119
Civilizations
76, 83
Clash of Civilization
83
Clash of Egos
4, 30, 107
clientelist and patronage politics
102, 129
CLMV
37, 65
Cold War
36, 62, 10, 149, 184
colonization
9, 26, 83, 144
colonizer
30
decolonization
29, 92, 118
communism
56, 94, 149
community
1, 29, 56, 85, 109, 136, 171, 188
competition
39, 96, 125, 163
contact zones
77
conviviality
77
coping strategies
103
coping
103, 130, 140, 162, 174
cosmopolitan
77, 124
cosmopolitism
77
Covid-19
2, 22, 157, 184
CPLP
4, 28, 41, 76, 117
creolization
150
CRISEA
4, 28, 41, 135, 142
EU H2020
2
cultural brokerage
76
brokerage
81, 96
cities as brokerage
96
urban brokerage
81
multiple brokerages
96
cultural translation
4, 76, 103, 158, 173
decision-making
3, 20, 43, 47, 67, 100, 187
democracy
40, 66, 94, 121, 136, 186
democratic
41, 62, 117, 141, 183
ASEAN
62, 183
Southeast Asia
53
Timor-Leste
42, 183
diplomatic
11, 12
ASEAN
40, 50
China
74
relations
27, 143, 162, 276
diplomatic friendship
ASEAN
144
diplomatic opportunity
China
163
diplomatic relations
27
China
163
Timor-Leste & China
176
diplomatic solidarity
ASEAN
65
disadvantage
3, 29, 41, 107, 125
discontents
5, 21, 25
disjunctures and conjunctures
77
duality
75
dynamics
2
cultural dynamics
77
inclusion and exclusion
5
inclusion-exclusion
40
integration
41
internal and external
39
leadership
60
othering
88
patronage and clientelism
107
power
26
power dynamics
2, 158
regional
25
regional dynamics
151, 164
social
114
state
124
economic benefit
116
Economic capability deficit
124
ecumene
4, 84, 133, 158, 175
amity
3, 135, 175
creolization
149
global lineages
149
elder
81
elite
3, 36, 81, 109
ASEAN
22, 36, 42
creole
88, 95
Timor-Leste
3, 81, 95, 109
EU
101, 136, 6, 85
European Union
4, 129, 164
Europe
117, 120, 42, 183
European Union
142, 146, 171, 173, 221
European identity
53, 87
European market
41
Europeans
127, 148, 173
exclusion
43
Timor-Leste
33
family
95, 135, 174
fieldwork
2, 27, 48, 82, 102, 129, 143
flowchart
5, 48, 67
focus group
4, 104
civil society
5, 48, 105, 128, 142
entrepreneurs
2, 101, 124
foreign
9, 10, 18
occupation
27
foreign affairs
31, 113
foreign aid
38, 58, 61, 162
China
161
foreign cooperation
165
foreign diplomacy
162
China
160
foreign interests
25, 81
foreign interventions
186
foreign minister
111
ASEAN
113
foreign policy
26, 38, 183
foreign power
113, 140
foreigner
88
foreigners
95
generation
107
geopolitics
76, 120
ghost partnership
129
global players
1, 28, 103, 152
globalization
2, 76, 96, 134, 152
heterotopy
77
house society
130
human resources
25, 41, 63, 106, 124, 162, 185
human rights
16, 43, 117, 144, 185
ideal type
114, 149
identity
4, 39, 77, 117, 148
ASEAN
10, 101, 117, 130
European Union
54, 87
postcolonial
138
social
121
Southeast Asia
9
Timor-Leste
83, 89
imagination
75, 134
translocal
133
in-betweenness
77
inclusion and exclusion
5
inclusion-exclusion
40
ASEAN
100, 129
independence
economic
60
Timor-Leste
5, 26, 60, 82, 112, 140
Indonesia
10, 25, 54, 83, 164, 187
friends
115, 143
myths
75, 142
occupation
5, 25
inhabited space
ecumene
84
interdisciplinary
2, 133
international
1, 27, 43, 47, 78, 101, 133, 160
community
1, 173, 187
international region
2, 173, 187
culture
173
international regions
3, 76, 96, 103, 139, 175
international relations
1, 9, 26, 62, 96, 133, 158, 175, 183
interplay
103, 123, 159
kinship
4, 79, 118, 135, 150
local
18, 89, 114, 126, 171
communities
109, 116
global
133, 175
language
90, 174
society
91, 102
Timor-Leste
134
awareness
110
local cultures
84
Local Knowledge
48
local-global
1, 134
malae
88
market
9
competition
116, 127
economy
15, 21, 58, 124
European Union
41
export
56
free
126
international
26, 102, 116
labor
125
trade
124
marriage
80, 145
member state
3
ASEAN
6, 29, 68, 101, 126, 159, 187
member states
11, 17
ASEAN
14, 34, 48, 101, 122, 165, 172, 183
membership
2, 15, 26, 146
ASEAN
2, 27, 52, 112, 159, 183
ASEAN & Timor-Leste
6, 25, 48, 100, 115, 145, 183
Timor-Leste
5, 26, 50, 100, 116, 146, 183
middle ground
67, 82, 101, 130, 175
middleman
6, 106, 129, 158, 175
Timor-Leste
129,157,
minority
82, 120
modernity
76, 112, 124, 141
multilateral
1, 11, 21, 48, 158, 172
commitments
168
dialogue
22, 162
governance
67
relations
29, 96, 158
trade
15
multilateralism
47
multiple strategic relationship
64, 108, 120
multiple strategic relationships
28, 102, 121
myth
80, 140, 186
myth of origin
75
myths of origin
76, 139
narcissism of minor differences
102, 116
narrative
37, 41, 77, 116, 127
ASEAN
105, 133, 184
bottom-up
133
covid-19
157
European Union
84
geopolitics
136, 148, 161, 188
language
6
library
135, 139
myth
75, 139
Timor-Leste
93, 135
Timor-Leste readiness
3, 102, 158, 187
narratives
6, 77, 94, 133
focus group
42, 116
Western and Chinese
158
nation
17, 22, 26, 29, 32, 48, 84, 142, 164
nationalism
81, 94
Timor-Leste
93, 102, 115, 139
Nation building
10
negotiation
3, 12, 40, 64, 94, 107, 121
negotiations
13, 63, 100, 136, 157, 174
neighbors
39, 106, 118, 128, 133, 148, 162
ASEAN
117, 125, 143
Indonesia
118
new cold war
63
NGO
55, 140
origin
76, 85, 118
home
87
myth
75, 93, 139
Otherings
5, 76, 92
overseas
88
communities
9
influence
97
pandemic assistance
163
siblings
5, 75, 168
China
163
pandemic
4, 14, 22
China
6, 158, 162
China aid
160, 164
crisis
21, 157
preparedness
22, 36
regional power
22, 160, 166
patronage and clientelism
31, 103, 116, 141
peripheries
9, 96
periphery
148, 177
political science
3, 48
methodology
48
political sciences
149
politicians
2, 105, 123
focus group
104
politics
1, 18, 76, 102, 117, 134, 170
polylogue
102, 115, 173
ecumene
173, 177
Portugal
127, 143
CPLP
30, 113
family
30, 144
imagination
92
kingdom
87, 93
sibling
88, 141, 147,
siblings
117
United Nations
53
post-independence
28, 121, 141
Ramos-Horta
28, 58, 111
readiness
105
Timor-Leste
3, 31, 48, 102, 113, 184
regional identity
18, 101, 117, 137
regional organization
30, 103, 137
ASEAN
57, 137, 184
bottom-up
134, 139
regional organizations
64, 103, 133, 151
regionalism
11, 40, 147, 173, 184
rural society
97
SEA region
37, 42, 143
security
5, 10, 35, 56, 110, 137, 171, 185
sibling
5, 96
myth of origin
75
older and younger
75, 96, 97
Singapore
9, 41, 51, 68, 123, 165, 184
concerns
12, 19, 38
social sciences
76
social situation
105
society
55, 75, 96, 109, 187
big man
32, 106, 124
postcolonial
103
Timor-Leste
85, 116, 147
sociocultural
1, 17, 36, 48, 84, 134, 158
ASEAN
37, 65, 134
sociology
1, 77, 137
sociopolitical
6, 100, 121, 129
identity
121
sovereignty
10, 17, 39, 110, 185
space
39, 77, 97, 134
anthropology
133, 152
beyond borders
2
cultural exchange
84, 139, 142
international
135
local-global
134
cultural exchange
173
SPF
South Pacific Forum
28
state society
96
stranger king
140
straw man fallacy
157
struggle
ASEAN
157
myth of origin
94
political
32, 112
Timorese people
124
Timor-Leste
5, 187
territory
80, 92, 137, 174
the time-space compression
97
third cultures
78
third space
77
Timor-Leste
disadvantage
41, 125, 127
peripheral
21, 39, 150
top-down
4, 49, 147, 175
translation
76, 92, 168, 177
traditions
173
translocal
133
translocal imaginations
133
translocality
134
transnational
48, 87, 97, 184
transnationalism
133, 149
transregional organization
CPLP
29
triangle mandate
30
triangular relations
Timor-Leste, China, ASEAN
158
triangular relationship
157
Timor-Leste, China, ASEAN
160
triangular social situation
111
turning points
5, 25, 42, 127
United Nations
34, 57, 164
Xanana
112
Xanana Gusmão
30
Xanana intervention
32
Xanana Strategy
111
younger
5, 75, 85, 96, 107, 140
youth
6, 17, 128
focus group
90, 101, 143, 125
Zacarias da Costa
31, 111