Challenge the Strong Wind recounts the story of Canadian policy toward East Timor from the 1975 invasion to the 1999 vote for independence, demonstrating that historical accounts need to include both government and non-governmental perspectives.
David Webster is a professor of history and global studies at Bishop's University. He is author of Fire and the Full Moon: Canada and Indonesia in a Decolonizing World and editor of Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia and Melanesia. He worked with the East Timor Alert Network of Canada from 1987 to 1997, and is a member of the international advisory council of Centro Nacional Chega, the Timorese centre for truth and reconciliation.
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David Webster's Challenge the Strong Wind: Canada and East Timor, 1975−99 is a significant scholarly work on Canada‐East Timor relations.- Wu‐Ling Chong (Asian Policy and Politics) I read with avid interest David Webster's Challenge the Strong Wind…this is a wonderful book.- Ferry de Kerckhove, Senior Fellow, University of Ottawa (International Journal)
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Foreword by Robert Bothwell and John English1 Introduction: Never a Lost CausePart 1: From Indifference to Complicity, 1975–832 Through Australian Eyes? Pierre Trudeau and the Indonesian Annexation of East Timor, 1975–773 Human Rights and the Humanitarian Impulse: Oxfam and East Timor, 1975–764 Changing Sides at the United Nations, 1978–825 Ceasefire and War Crimes, 1983Part 2: A Clash of Narratives, 1984–916 A Counter-Narrative Emerges, 1980–857 Congruent Interests? The Mulroney Government, 1984–918 Canadian Catholics and the East Timor Struggle9 The Canada Asia Working Group, 1986–9110 Speaking Mouths: The East Timor Alert Network, 1986–91Part 3: Trade vs. Human Rights, 1991–9811 Santa Cruz and After12 Human Rights and Diaspora Diplomacy13 Recalibrating the Relationship, 1993–9514 A Nobel Cause: Diplomacy and Activism, 1996–98Part 4: Changing the Narrative, 1998 Onward15 Canada Comes Around, 1998–9916 Canada and East Timor in the Twenty-First Century17 Conclusion: Diplomacies Seen and UnseenNotes; Bibliography; Index