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The United Nations and Decolonization

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Eggers, Nicole
Autres auteurs: Almada e Santos, Aurora, Pearson, Jessica Lynne
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Collection:Routledge Studies in Modern History Ser.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • 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 Africa question and the United Nations Trusteeship Council
  • 3. The United Nations, Italian decolonization, and the 1949 Bevin-Sforza plan: a victory for neocolonialism?
  • 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 Portuguese colonies, 1961-1962: information gathering and the evolving interpretation of Article 73(e)
  • 9. The United Nations and West Papuan self-determination: lingering conceptions of "civilization" in the decolonization process
  • Index