ISBN:
9781107123991
Language:
English
Pages:
xxxii, 701 Seiten
,
24 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bandung, global history, and international law
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Eslava, Luis Bandung, Global History, and International Law
DDC:
327.09171/6
Keywords:
Asian-African Conference
;
Asian-African Conference Influence
;
Nonalignment History 20th century
;
Decolonization History 20th century
;
International law History 20th century
;
Nonalignment History
;
20th century
;
Decolonization History
;
20th century
;
International law
;
Decolonization
;
International law
;
Nonalignment
;
Asian-African Conference
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Asian-African Conference 1. Bandung 1955
Abstract:
"In 1955 a conference was held in Bandung, Indonesia that was attended by representatives from twenty-nine developing nations. Against the backdrop of crumbling European colonies, Asian and African leaders forged a new alliance and established anti-imperial principles for a new world order. The conference captured the popular imagination across the Global South. Bandung's larger significance as counterpoint to the dominant world order was both an act of collective imagination and a practical political project for decolonization that inspired a range of social movements, diplomatic efforts, institutional experiments and heterodox visions of the history and future of the world. This book explores what the spirit of Bandung has meant to people across the world over the past decades and what it means today. Experts from a wide range of fields show how, despite the complicated legacy of the conference, international law was never the same after Bandung"--
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