TY - BOOK ID - 118339259 TI - The Paradox of ASEAN Centrality : Timor-Leste Betwixt and Between AU - Seixas, Paulo Castro AU - Mendes, Nuno Canas AU - Lobner, Nadine PY - 2023 SN - 9004522921 9004522913 PB - Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, DB - UniCat KW - ASEAN KW - Membership. KW - Timor-Leste KW - Southeast Asia KW - Foreign relations KW - Association of Southeast Asian nations KW - Asia, Southeast KW - Asia, Southeastern KW - South East Asia KW - Southeastern Asia KW - Democratic Republic of East Timor KW - Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste KW - East Timor KW - Higashi Timōru KW - Itä-Timor KW - Östra Timor KW - Östtimor KW - RDTL KW - Repoṕlika Democrátika Timor Lorosa'e KW - República Democrática de Timor-Leste KW - Repúblika Demokrátika Timor Lorosa'e KW - Repúplica Democrática de Timor-Leste KW - Timor Lorosa'e KW - Timor Wschodni KW - Тимор-Лесте KW - 東ティモール KW - Constitutional Government of East Timor KW - Governo Constitucional de Timor-Leste KW - Governu Konstitutionál da Timor-Leste KW - Timor Timur (Indonesia) KW - International relations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118339259 AB - "ASEAN, as being on the very core of this matter, deserves close attention through the case of Timor-Leste for understanding international strategic inclusion-exclusion dynamics. The manuscript we provide tackles this case through a small country 'in-between' the core global actors of economic and political concern: Timor-Leste as a ground for grasping large-scale complexities in decision-making processes, as much as the micro-understanding and dynamics of a small country 'within the game' - if not even on the forefront"-- ER -