Making a World after Empire : The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives

Authors

Christopher J. Lee

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Series

Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies

Description

In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world. Ostensibly representing two-thirds of the world’s population, the Bandung conference occurred during a key moment of transition in the mid-twentieth century—amid the global wave of decolonization that took place after the Second World War and the nascent establishment of a new Cold War world order in its wake. Participants such as Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Zhou Enlai of China, and Sukarno of Indonesia seized this occasion to attempt the creation of a political alternative to the dual threats of Western neocolonialism and the Cold War interventionism of the United States and the Soviet Union.

The essays collected here explore the diverse repercussions of this event, tracing diplomatic, intellectual, and sociocultural histories that ensued as well as addressing the broader intersection of postcolonial and Cold War history. With a new foreword by Vijay Prashad and a new preface by the editor, Making a World after Empire speaks to contemporary discussions of decolonization, Third Worldism, and the emergence of the Global South, thus reestablishing the conference’s importance in twentieth-century global history.

Contributors: Michael Adas, Laura Bier, James R. Brennan, G. Thomas Burgess, Antoinette Burton, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Julian Go, Christopher J. Lee, Jamie Monson, Jeremy Prestholdt, and Denis M. Tull.

Award(s): Choice Significant University Press Title for Undergraduates, Ali Sastroamidjojo Award

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Making a World after Empire © 2019 by Ohio University Press is licensed under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Language

eng

ISBN

9780896805057

Publication Date

8-19-2019

Publisher

Ohio University Press

City

Athens

Keywords

world history, international relations, postcolonialism, decolonization, Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Zhou Enlai, Sukarno, neocolonialism, non-Western history, Cold War, Third World history, Global South, global history, international conferences, Michael Adas, Laura Bier, James Brennan, G Thomas Burgess, Antoinette Burton, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Julian Go, Christopher Lee, Jamie Monson, Jeremy Prestholdt, Denis M Tull, Vijay Prashad

Disciplines

Global Studies | History | International Relations | Political Science | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Lee, Christopher J., "Making a World after Empire : The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives" (2019). Ohio University Press Open Access Books. 61.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/61