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The Road to INTERFET: Bringing the Politics Back In
Author: Clinton Fernandes
Volume 4, Number 3 (Spring 2008), pp. 83-98.
Abstract
This article examines Australia’s strategic policy during the 1999 East Timor crisis. Written as a stand-alone piece, it is in some ways a broad counter-point to the essay by Professor Hugh White in the Autumn 2008 issue of Security Challenges. The author, who was Principal Analyst (East Timor) for the Australian Intelligence Corps in 1998 and 1999, argues that the Australian government was not ambivalent about a peacekeeping force; rather, it worked assiduously to prevent such a force. It demonstrates the need for strategic actors to incorporate the rough-and-tumble of domestic politics and public opinion into their sometimes bureaucratic, anaemic calculations.
About the Author
Dr Clinton Fernandes is Senior Lecturer in Strategic Studies at the Australian Defence Force Academy campus of the University of New South Wales. In 1998 and 1999 he was Principal Analyst (East Timor) for the Australian Intelligence Corps. Today his main research area is International Relations and Strategy. He focuses on the National Interest in Australia's external relations. He is the author of several publications, including Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the independence of East Timor (Scribe, 2004), and Reluctant Indonesians: Australia, Indonesia and the future of West Papua (Scribe, 2006). C.Fernandes@adfa.edu.au.
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