Anti-colonial movements sought to reshape the international order through self-determination
In short: A study of historical anti-colonial movements found that these struggles were not just about ending foreign rule. Researchers investigating archival sources from three continents observed that anti-colonial leaders actively worked to reconstruct the global political landscape, attempting to integrate the principles of self-determination into the very structure of the post-war international system.
The book argues that empire was not just foreign rule but a system that made new nation-states' independence conditional on the wider international order, and traces how anti-colonial leaders tried to redesign the rules of that order itself rather than simply replace colonial governments with local ones.
The analysis draws on archival sources from three continents to reconstruct this nearly forgotten history of postwar anti-colonial thought; as a work of historical and intellectual analysis rather than a quantitative study, its conclusions rest on the author's interpretation of these documents.
Why it matters: Anti-colonial struggles were not just about ending empire; they were attempts to redesign the whole international system.
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- Summary by Intellect · source: Research: Riebe (2020). Worldmaking after empire: the rise and fall of self-determination. International Affairs.
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