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.

• 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

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)