The United Nations and Decolonization (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Eggers, Nicole; Almada E Santos, Aurora; Pearson, Jessica Lynne

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Produktbeschreibung

The authors in this book explore the early history of the United Nations in order to increase our understanding of both the achievements and the limits of international support for the independence of colonized peoples.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351044028
• Artikelnr.: 59807882

Autorenporträt

Nicole Eggers is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee- Knoxville. Her ¿eld of research is the modern history of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Jessica Lynne Pearson is Assistant Professor of History at Macalester College. She is the author of The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa (2018). Aurora Almada e Santos is Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of NOVA University of Lisbon. She is the author of A Organização das Nações Unidas e a Questão Colonial Portuguesa, 1960-1974 (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I: The Politics of Oversight; 1. National Prerogatives
versus International Supervision: Britain's Evolving Policy toward the
Campaign for Equivalency of United Nations' Handling of Dependent
Territories, 1945-1963; 2. A Challenge to the System: The South West
African Question and the United Nations Trusteeship Council; 3. The United
Nations, the Italian Decolonization and the 1949 Bevin-Sforza Plan: A
Victory for Neo-colonialism?; Part II: Decolonizing Global Governance?; 4.
The United Nations between 'Old Boys Club' and a Changing World Order: The
South African-Indian Dispute at the United Nations, 1945-1955; 5. 'A Crisis
of Confidence': The Postcolonial Moment and the Diplomacy of Decolonization
at the United Nations, ca. 1961; 6. Haiti, the United Nations, and
Decolonization in the Congo; Part III: Unraveling Empire; 7. The Trust
Territory of Somaliland, 1950-1960: Trusteeship or Colony?; 8. The United
Nations and Information Gathering on Portuguese Colonies, 1961-1962; 9. The
United Nations and West Papuan Self-Determination: Lingering Conceptions of
'Civilization' in the Decolonization Process