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This dissertation documents the consequences for women's activism when the United Nations acted as government in East Timor between October 1999 and May 2002. After 25 years of Indonesian rule, the East Timorese voted overwhelmingly to become an independent State on 30 August 19…

This dissertation addresses the role of diaspora communities in international transitional administrations. I focus on Shiite Iraqi diaspora in the United States and Europe that returned to Iraq in official roles with the Iraqi Reconstruction Development Council (IRDC), a branch…