Fellows of St Antony's College, Oxford - Jose Ramos-Horta, Ralf Dahrendorf, William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire, David Nicholls (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Jose Ramos-Horta, Ralf Dahrendorf, William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire, David Nicholls, Phyllis Starkey, Homa Katouzian, Mark Fisher, Raymond Carr, Alan Knight, Lucia Raynero Morales, Archie Brown, Kofi Abrefa Busia, Paul Collier, Tapan Raychaudhuri, Ian Buruma, Michael Aris, Guido di Tella, Joanna Kavenna, Avi Shlaim, Gordon Marsden, Horst Moller, Albert Hourani, Enrique Krauze, Kalypso Nicolaidis, Sarvepalli Gopal, Robert Service, Mark Allen, Frank McLynn, Timothy Garton Ash, D. R. Thorpe, Raghavan N. Iyer, James Joll, Geoffrey Lewis, Nira Wickramasinghe, Evan Luard, Christopher de Bellaigue, Terence Ranger, Richard Clogg, Chimen Abramsky, Martin Meredith, Sudipta Kaviraj, Derek Hopwood, Anand Menon, Rosemary Foot, Roy Giles, Philip Robins. Excerpt: Jose Manuel Ramos-Horta (Portuguese pronunciation: ), GCL (born 26 December 1949) is the President of East Timor, the second since independence from Indonesia, taking office on 20 May 2007. He is a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize and a former Prime Minister, having served from 2006 until his inauguration as President after winning the 2007 East Timorese presidential election. As a founder and former member of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (FRETILIN), Ramos-Horta served as the exiled spokesman for the East Timorese resistance during the years of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975 to 1999). While he has continued to work with FRETILIN, Ramos-Horta resigned from the party in 1988, and has since remained an independent politician. After East Timor achieved independence in 2002, Ramos-Horta was appointed as the country's first Foreign Minister. He served in this position until his resignation on 25 June 2006, amidst political turmoil. On 26 June, following the resignation of Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, Ramos-Horta was a...