1. Introduction: Timor-Leste: Historical legacies and contemporary challenges, Andrew McWilliam and Michael Leach
Part I: Politics and Governance
2. An unfinished journey: Timor-Leste's path to democracy, Rui Graca Feijo
3. Gusmao's ruling strategy: From peace-building to purchase and coercion, Douglas Kammen
4. Shifting ground: flexible alliances and generational change in post-independence politics, Maj Nygaard-Christensen and Angie Bexley
5. Lisan, state, church and community: displacement, syncretism, cohabitation, David Hicks
6. The future of East Timorese nationalism, Michael Leach
Part II: Economics and Development
7. When the oil runs dry, Charlie Scheiner
8. From 'special treatment' to a Special Economic Zone: antecedents to ZEESM in the Oecusse-Ambeno enclave, Laura Meitzner Yoder
9. Timor-Leste is a rich country, but also a poor one: the effect and effectiveness of public transfer schemes, Joanne Wallis
10. On Brexit worries: migration and remittance landscapes in Timor-Leste, Andrew McWilliam and Carmeneza Dos Santos Monteiro
Part III: Social Policies and the Terms of Inclusion
11. House-life, Oikopolitics, and the failures of social housing in Timor-Leste, Gabe Tusinski
12. Towards an integrated and accessible mental health care system in Timor-Leste, Susana Barnes Lisa Palmer, Ritsuko Kakuma and Benjamin Larke
13. Internal displacement in Timor-Leste, Pyone Myat Thu
14. Veterans and the politics of citizenship, Lia Kent
15. Well-known and little understood: martial arts groups in Timor-Leste, Janina Palwelz
Part IV: Cultural Impacts
16. Culture as symbol: customary marriage practices under transformation in urban Timor-Leste, Kelly Silva
17. Mane Ho Feto Kompleta Malu: gender Rrlations in contemporary Timor-Leste, Sara Niner
18. Paths to infinity: ancestorship, origin narratives and differentiation, Susana de Matos Viegas
19. Movimentu Kultura: making Timor-Leste, Leonor Veiga
20. The legacies of the (deep) past and the role of archaeology and cultural heritage in contemporary Timor-Leste, Nuno Vasco Oliveira
Part V: Regional Relations
21. Settling Timor-Leste's international limits and boundaries, Clive Schofield and I Made Andi Arsana
22. Timor-Leste and ASEAN: from enmity to amity, exclusion to semi-inclusion, Maria Ortuoste
23. Overseas Chinese, soft power and China's people-to-people diplomacy in Timor-Leste, Laurentina 'Mica' Barreto Soares
24. Performing and Transforming Citizenship among East Timorese in Indonesian West Timor,Andrey Damaledo