HIS 2342 Lecture Notes - Sukarno, Metropolitan France, Moral Authority
20 Mar 2014
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We can"t understand the cold war history without looking at colonization. What this means understands the historical agency of african, asian, latin american and middle. They"re making their own course instead of being the object of a us or ussr history. It"s important to pay attention to local factors whether they are african, asian etc into their concerns for independence which may or may not be included into a larger cold war narrative. We can"t look at decolonization as a game to be played by soviets but a struggle in which colonized people are the most active participants. He imposes a new reading of the cold war. Move beyond the capitalism and communism to look at local factors in decolonization struggles whom themselves have no investment in cold war politics. The post-war decolonization is the 20th century break-up of empires. Political decolonisation that involved political negotiations to end colonial relationships.
