Author: Y. El-Ayouty
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940117525X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
When the United Nations' Charter was signed in San Francisco in 1945, the number of African member states of the Organisation was only 4. By the end of 1960 it had risen to 22. Today it is 41. How has this come about? The answer is given in this valuable book by Dr. Yassin EI-Ayouty. The handful of Asian and African countries who had the privilege of foundation membership made it their business to see to it that their brethren who were still under the colonial yoke attained their freedom and independence as soon as possible and, in the meanwhile, that they were treated with decency and fairness by their colonial masters. It was a tough assignment. The struggle was long, requiring a great deal of patience and endurance. It was at times fierce, requiring much dogged resolution. It also called for the deployment of intellectual agility ofthe highest order. Fortunately all these qualities were available in the rep resentatives of Asia and Africa who led the great struggle. These dis tinguished delegates also demonstrated a wonderful degree of solidarity which has, happily, become an Afro-Asian tradition at the United Nations. The battle began even before the Organisation had itself become a fact. It would have been a more difficult struggle, had there been no provision in the Charter at all in respect of colonies, by whatever name called.
Bandung, Global History, and International Law
Author: Luis Eslava
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108500706
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 735
Book Description
In 1955, a conference was held in Bandung, Indonesia that was attended by representatives from twenty-nine nations. Against the backdrop of crumbling European empires, Asian and African leaders forged new alliances and established anti-imperial principles for a new world order. The conference came to capture popular imaginations across the Global South and, as counterpoint to the dominant world order, it became 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. In this book, leading international scholars explore what the spirit of Bandung has meant to people across the world over the past decades and what it means today. It analyzes Bandung's complicated and pivotal impact on global history, international law and, most of all, justice struggles after the end of formal colonialism.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108500706
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 735
Book Description
In 1955, a conference was held in Bandung, Indonesia that was attended by representatives from twenty-nine nations. Against the backdrop of crumbling European empires, Asian and African leaders forged new alliances and established anti-imperial principles for a new world order. The conference came to capture popular imaginations across the Global South and, as counterpoint to the dominant world order, it became 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. In this book, leading international scholars explore what the spirit of Bandung has meant to people across the world over the past decades and what it means today. It analyzes Bandung's complicated and pivotal impact on global history, international law and, most of all, justice struggles after the end of formal colonialism.
The United Nations and Decolonization: The Role of Afro — Asia
Author: Y. El-Ayouty
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940117525X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
When the United Nations' Charter was signed in San Francisco in 1945, the number of African member states of the Organisation was only 4. By the end of 1960 it had risen to 22. Today it is 41. How has this come about? The answer is given in this valuable book by Dr. Yassin EI-Ayouty. The handful of Asian and African countries who had the privilege of foundation membership made it their business to see to it that their brethren who were still under the colonial yoke attained their freedom and independence as soon as possible and, in the meanwhile, that they were treated with decency and fairness by their colonial masters. It was a tough assignment. The struggle was long, requiring a great deal of patience and endurance. It was at times fierce, requiring much dogged resolution. It also called for the deployment of intellectual agility ofthe highest order. Fortunately all these qualities were available in the rep resentatives of Asia and Africa who led the great struggle. These dis tinguished delegates also demonstrated a wonderful degree of solidarity which has, happily, become an Afro-Asian tradition at the United Nations. The battle began even before the Organisation had itself become a fact. It would have been a more difficult struggle, had there been no provision in the Charter at all in respect of colonies, by whatever name called.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940117525X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
When the United Nations' Charter was signed in San Francisco in 1945, the number of African member states of the Organisation was only 4. By the end of 1960 it had risen to 22. Today it is 41. How has this come about? The answer is given in this valuable book by Dr. Yassin EI-Ayouty. The handful of Asian and African countries who had the privilege of foundation membership made it their business to see to it that their brethren who were still under the colonial yoke attained their freedom and independence as soon as possible and, in the meanwhile, that they were treated with decency and fairness by their colonial masters. It was a tough assignment. The struggle was long, requiring a great deal of patience and endurance. It was at times fierce, requiring much dogged resolution. It also called for the deployment of intellectual agility ofthe highest order. Fortunately all these qualities were available in the rep resentatives of Asia and Africa who led the great struggle. These dis tinguished delegates also demonstrated a wonderful degree of solidarity which has, happily, become an Afro-Asian tradition at the United Nations. The battle began even before the Organisation had itself become a fact. It would have been a more difficult struggle, had there been no provision in the Charter at all in respect of colonies, by whatever name called.
Afro Asia
Author: Fred Ho
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822342816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies linking African Americans and Asian Americans.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822342816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies linking African Americans and Asian Americans.
The United Nations
Author: Sydney D. Bailey
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349237531
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
The book serves as a comprehensive yet concise guide to the political workings of the United Nations system. It details the purposes and structure of the Organisation, with specific chapters on peace and security, disarmament, and human rights. In the final chapter the problems facing the UN are examined. Tables provide information on the size and distribution of UN membership, peacekeeping operations and the use of the Security Council veto. It includes the full text of the UN Charter.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349237531
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
The book serves as a comprehensive yet concise guide to the political workings of the United Nations system. It details the purposes and structure of the Organisation, with specific chapters on peace and security, disarmament, and human rights. In the final chapter the problems facing the UN are examined. Tables provide information on the size and distribution of UN membership, peacekeeping operations and the use of the Security Council veto. It includes the full text of the UN Charter.
The Afro-Asian Movement
Author: David Kimche
Publisher: Jerusalem : Israel Universities Press ; New York : Halsted Press
ISBN:
Category : Afro-Asian politics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher: Jerusalem : Israel Universities Press ; New York : Halsted Press
ISBN:
Category : Afro-Asian politics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
United Nations
Author: Sydney D. Bailey
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134919963X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
A beginner's guide to the United Nations which sets out the purposes and structure of this organization and also discusses how much power the UN really has and whether the need for and the role of the UN in the world is justified. Six contemporary criticisms of the UN are also analyzed.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134919963X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
A beginner's guide to the United Nations which sets out the purposes and structure of this organization and also discusses how much power the UN really has and whether the need for and the role of the UN in the world is justified. Six contemporary criticisms of the UN are also analyzed.
The Department of State Bulletin
Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Luisa Marcela Ossa
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498587097
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although their journeys started from different points of origin, spanning two separate oceans, their point of contact in this hemisphere brought them together under a hegemonic system that would treat these seemingly disparate continental ancestries as one. Historically, an overwhelming majority of people of African and Asian descent were brought to the Americas as sources of labor to uphold the plantation, agrarian economies leading to complex relationships and interactions. The contributions to this collection examine various aspects of these connections. The authors bring to the forefront perspectives regarding history, literature, art, and religion and engage how they are manifested in these Afro-Asian relationships and interactions. They investigate what has received little academic engagement outside the acknowledgement that there are groups who are of African and Asian descent. In regard to their relationships with the dominant Europeanized center, references to both groups typically only view them as singular entities. What this interdisciplinary collection presents is a more cohesive approach that strives to place them at the center together and view their relationships in their historical contexts.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498587097
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although their journeys started from different points of origin, spanning two separate oceans, their point of contact in this hemisphere brought them together under a hegemonic system that would treat these seemingly disparate continental ancestries as one. Historically, an overwhelming majority of people of African and Asian descent were brought to the Americas as sources of labor to uphold the plantation, agrarian economies leading to complex relationships and interactions. The contributions to this collection examine various aspects of these connections. The authors bring to the forefront perspectives regarding history, literature, art, and religion and engage how they are manifested in these Afro-Asian relationships and interactions. They investigate what has received little academic engagement outside the acknowledgement that there are groups who are of African and Asian descent. In regard to their relationships with the dominant Europeanized center, references to both groups typically only view them as singular entities. What this interdisciplinary collection presents is a more cohesive approach that strives to place them at the center together and view their relationships in their historical contexts.
The Anticolonial Transnational
Author: Erez Manela
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009359126
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This volume is the first to explore transnational anticolonialism as a general global phenomenon that spanned the entire twentieth century. Its collected essays model both a broadening of the issues under consideration and the collaboration necessary to do justice to the scope of this vibrant field. They showcase new work by scholars who explore the anticolonial transnational in multiple geographical regions, from a variety of perspectives, and at many different times across the long twentieth century. Revealing that anticolonial movements everywhere in this period were invariably transnational in terms of their imaginaries, mobilities, and networks, these essays also demonstrate that centering transnational connections can change our understanding of the anticolonial past. The legacies of transnational anticolonial strategies and networks fundamentally shaped the present. Together, these essays present a fresh, kaleidoscopic view of the geographical, chronological, and thematic possibilities of the global anticolonial transnational.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009359126
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This volume is the first to explore transnational anticolonialism as a general global phenomenon that spanned the entire twentieth century. Its collected essays model both a broadening of the issues under consideration and the collaboration necessary to do justice to the scope of this vibrant field. They showcase new work by scholars who explore the anticolonial transnational in multiple geographical regions, from a variety of perspectives, and at many different times across the long twentieth century. Revealing that anticolonial movements everywhere in this period were invariably transnational in terms of their imaginaries, mobilities, and networks, these essays also demonstrate that centering transnational connections can change our understanding of the anticolonial past. The legacies of transnational anticolonial strategies and networks fundamentally shaped the present. Together, these essays present a fresh, kaleidoscopic view of the geographical, chronological, and thematic possibilities of the global anticolonial transnational.