Bandung, Global History, and International Law
Subtitle: Critical Pasts and Pending Futures
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 730
ISBN-13: 9781107123991
Subjects: Asia-africa conference, bandung, java, 1955; Nonalignment; Decolonization; International law
Description: "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"--