MMW 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Neocolonialism, World Bank, Monocropping
12 Jun 2018
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Outline Lecture Nine—Decolonization or Neo-colonialism?
Key Questions:
1) How can a decolonized Third world nation best achieve self-empowerment?
2) What are the similarities and differences between imperialism and neo-colonialism
I) The Decolonization Process
New phenomenon of neo-colonial structure
Trend after ww2 in places like Asia and Africa
a) Decolonizing Trends in Asia and Africa after 1945
i) In Africa alone, creation of forty new states
ii) Belated realization of Wilsonian self-determination?
iii) Maturation of an indigenous educated class exposed to Western values
Colonize ppl
Certain members receiving education
Influence of Western values
Nationalists had exposure in the west
iv) Participation of many Third World nationalists in W.W.II
French colonials fighting against nazi Germany
Filipino nationalists fighting against Japanese
Participation felt like they had more say in their future
b) Exceptions to the rule of relatively peaceful transitions
Most transitions were peaceful
India achieved peace without too much bloodshed
i) French Indochine
Now Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
(1) Ho Chi Minh’s call for national independence of Vietnam in 1945
Idea of self-determination on minds of nationalists
Called out on hypocrisy of French-vieche govn’t
French were traitors when fighting the Japanese (they were on the japan side) and
all of a sudden they wanted to come back and rule
(2) French colonial legacy
(a) Betrayed France’s own revolutionary ideals of “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité”
None of these things applied to French colonial rule
Resulted in anti-colonial war btw viet nationalists and French colonial rule
(3) Final French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954
Vietnamese defeated remaining French troops and forced them to evacuate
Fought them for 8 years
ii) Algeria 1955-62
Another war for independence
French were not willing to give up any concessions or for Algeria to move towards
independence
(1) French refusal to concede colonial interests
(a) Charles de Gaulle and the racism of the “Pied-noir”
Adamant about not giving up any concessions to Algerians
Pied-noir were notorious for extreme racism towards Arabs
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Document Summary
Key questions: how can a decolonized third world nation best achieve self-empowerment, what are the similarities and differences between imperialism and neo-colonialism, the decolonization process. Nationalists had exposure in the west: participation of many third world nationalists in w. w. ii. Participation felt like they had more say in their future: exceptions to the rule of relatively peaceful transitions. India achieved peace without too much bloodshed: french indochine. Now vietnam, laos, and cambodia (1) ho chi minh"s call for national independence of vietnam in 1945. French were traitors when fighting the japanese (they were on the japan side) and all of a sudden they wanted to come back and rule (2) french colonial legacy (a) betrayed france"s own revolutionary ideals of libert , egalit , fraternit . None of these things applied to french colonial rule. Resulted in anti-colonial war btw viet nationalists and french colonial rule (3) final french defeat at dien bien phu in 1954.
