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Abstract/Sommario: Independent East Timor, with UN support until May 2005, is straining to cope with problems of institution building and development. The vital issue of hydrocarbon revenues remains unresolved because of a territorial dispute with Australia and problems with the structures proposed to manage those resources

Abstract/Sommario: U.S.-Asian relations in 2004 were largely a waiting game. There were continued challenges to the regional status quo, but the United States was intent on deflecting and deferring the possibility of major change. The Bush administration, preoccupied by the president's reelection campaign and increased violence and instability in Iraq, sought principally to avoid potential crises, while hoping to garner increased regional support for U.S. policy goals, including in Iraq. As a second B ...; [Leggi tutto...] U.S.-Asian relations in 2004 were largely a waiting game. There were continued challenges to the regional status quo, but the United States was intent on deflecting and deferring the possibility of major change. The Bush administration, preoccupied by the president's reelection campaign and increased violence and instability in Iraq, sought principally to avoid potential crises, while hoping to garner increased regional support for U.S. policy goals, including in Iraq. As a second Bush presidential term approached, the agenda confronting U.S. policy makers seemed uncomfortably full, reflecting equal measures of unfinished business, pressures for change on both sides of the Pacific, and the ever-present potential for a major regional crisis