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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199855617
ISBN-13
9780199855612
eBay Product ID (ePID)
126917005
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Publication Name
Gordian Knot : Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Subject
International Relations / General, General, Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, World / African, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, History
Series
Oxford Studies in International History Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2012-003122
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Gordian Knot is an outstanding contribution to international history. It helps us understand why the United States was seen as the defender of apartheid South Africa and shows the disastrous consequences of that position for U.S. African policy." --Odd Arne Westad, author of Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750 "From 1960, as more and more African countries gained their independence, the racial policies of South Africa became a matter of global concern. Ryan Irwin has spotted a gap in the literature and filled it admirably, showing the complexities and ambiguities in the ways in which the international community responded to the apartheid regime." --Christopher Saunders, University of Cape Town "In this ambitious book, Ryan Irwin recounts the intersecting histories of decolonization and the international struggle against apartheid in South Africa, from its mid-century beginnings to its triumph in the last decade of the 20th century. The very length of the struggle is an indication of its complexity and the genius of Gordian Knot is that it is able to capture it all." --Marilyn Young, New York University "Situating the debate over apartheid in its global context, Ryan Irwin offers us a new perspective on postwar international history, and particularly on the intersections of the cold war and decolonization. Through this prism, this book shows how the rise of new nations in Africa influenced the dynamics of the cold war, the nature of the United Nations, and the direction of U.S. policy, and how it reshaped international society in ways that continue to matter today." --Erez Manela, author of The Wilsonian Moment "Irwin's informative and eloquent study is unique in its focus on U.S. foreign policy toward Africa during an era defined by nonalignment, decolonization, the cold war, and the U.S. civil rights movement. Just as Jim Crow segregation was the 'Achilles heel' of the United States at the height of the cold war, the immoral apartheid regime in South Africa violated the vision of a U.S.-led liberal international order committed to decolonization and development. Despite the efforts of the United Nations Afro-Asian bloc to end the regime, the imperatives of American hegemony permitted an accommodation with apartheid by U.S. officialdom. With the limits of decolonization apparent, apartheid was undone, finally, by the international human rights and solidarity campaigns orchestrated by the African National Congress." --Kevin K. Gaines, University of Michigan, "Gordian Knotis an outstanding contribution to international history. It helps us understand why the United States was seen as the defender ofapartheidSouth Africa and shows the disastrous consequences of that position for U.S. African policy." --Odd Arne Westad, author ofRestless Empire: Chinaand the World since 1750 "From 1960, as more and more African countries gained their independence, the racial policies of South Africa became a matter of global concern. Ryan Irwin has spotted a gap in the literature and filled it admirably, showing the complexities and ambiguities in the ways in which the international community responded to the apartheid regime." --Christopher Saunders, University of Cape Town "In this ambitious book, Ryan Irwin recounts the intersecting histories of decolonization and the international struggle against apartheid in South Africa, from its mid-century beginnings to its triumph in the last decade of the 20th century. The very length of the struggle is an indication of its complexity and the genius ofGordian Knotis that it is able to capture it all." --Marilyn Young, New York University "Situating the debate over apartheid in its global context, Ryan Irwin offers us a new perspective on postwar international history, and particularly on the intersections of the cold war and decolonization. Through this prism, this book shows how the rise of new nations in Africa influenced the dynamics of the cold war, the nature of the United Nations, and the direction of U.S. policy, and how it reshaped international society in ways that continue to matter today." --Erez Manela, author ofThe Wilsonian Moment "Irwin's informative and eloquent study is unique in its focus on U.S. foreign policy toward Africa during an era defined by nonalignment, decolonization, the cold war, and the U.S. civil rights movement. Just as Jim Crow segregation was the 'Achilles heel' of the United States at the height of the cold war, the immoral apartheid regime in South Africa violated the vision of a U.S.-led liberal international order committed to decolonization and development. Despite the efforts of the United Nations Afro-Asian bloc to end the regime, the imperatives of American hegemony permitted an accommodation with apartheid by U.S. officialdom. With the limits of decolonization apparent, apartheid was undone, finally, by the international human rights and solidarity campaigns orchestrated by the African National Congress." --Kevin K. Gaines, University of Michigan
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Dewey Decimal
968.06
Table Of Content
Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Opening the CurtainPart One ù Winds of Change1. Architects and Earthquakes2. Defining the Debate3. Africa for the AfricansPart Two ù White Redoubt4. Halls of Justice5. The Status Quo6. Looking OutwardConclusion: Toward a New OrderNotesBibliographyIndex
Synopsis
Gordian Knot explores how African decolonization remade the international order of the mid-twentieth century. In looking closely at the apartheid debate, the book shows the way South Africa's policies shaped the global conversation about rights and race and eroded Washington's influence at the United Nations., Writing more than one hundred years ago, African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois speculated that the great dilemma of the twentieth century would be the problem of "the color line." Nowhere was the dilemma of racial discrimination more entrenched--and more complex--than South Africa. This book looks at South Africa's freedom struggle in the years surrounding African decolonization, and it uses the global apartheid debate to explore the way new nation-states changed the international community during the mid-twentieth century. At the highpoint of decolonization, South Africa's problems shaped a transnational conversation about nationhood. Arguments about racial justice, which crested as Europe relinquished imperial control of Africa and the Caribbean, elided a deeper contest over the meaning of sovereignty, territoriality, and development. This contest was influenced--and had an impact on--the United States. Initially hopeful that liberal international institutions would amicably resolve the color line problem, Washington lost confidence as postcolonial diplomats took control of the U.N. agenda. The result was not only America's abandonment of the universalisms that propelled decolonization, but also the unraveling of the liberal order that remade politics during the twentieth century. Based on research in African, American, and European archives, Gordian Knot advances a bold new interpretation about African decolonization's relationship to American power. The book promises to shed light on U.S. foreign relations with the Third World and recast our understanding of liberal internationalism's fate after World War II., Writing more than one hundred years ago, African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois speculated that the great dilemma of the twentieth century would be the problem of "the color line." Nowhere was the dilemma of racial discrimination more entrenched-and more complex-than South Africa. Gordian Knot examines South Africa's freedom struggle in the years surrounding African decolonization, using the global apartheid debate to explore the way new nation-states changed the international community during the mid-twentieth century. At the highpoint of decolonization, South Africa's problems shaped a transnational conversation about nationhood. Arguments about racial justice, which crested as Europe relinquished imperial control of Africa and the Caribbean, elided a deeper contest over the meaning of sovereignty, territoriality, and development. Based on research in African, American, and European archives, Gordian Knot advances a bold new interpretation about African decolonization's relationship to American power. In so doing, it promises to shed light on U.S. foreign relations with the Third World and recast understandings of the fate of liberal internationalism after World War II., Writing more than one hundred years ago, African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois speculated that the great dilemma of the twentieth century would be the problem of "the color line." Nowhere was the dilemma of racial discrimination more entrenched - and more complex - than South Africa. This book looks at South Africa's freedom struggle in the years surrounding African decolonization, and it uses the global apartheid debate to explore the way new nation-states changed the international community during the mid-twentieth century. At the highpoint of decolonization, South Africa's problems shaped a transnational conversation about nationhood. Arguments about racial justice, which crested as Europe relinquished imperial control of Africa and the Caribbean, elided a deeper contest over the meaning of sovereignty, territoriality, and development. This contest was influenced - and had an impact on - the United States. Initially hopeful that liberal international institutions would amicably resolve the color line problem, Washington lost confidence as postcolonial diplomats took control of the U.N. agenda. The result was not only America's abandonment of the universalisms that propelled decolonization, but also the unraveling of the liberal order that remade politics during the twentieth century. Based on research in African, American, and European archives, Gordian Knot advances a bold new interpretation about African decolonization's relationship to American power. The book promises to shed light on U.S. foreign relations with the Third World and recast our understanding of liberal internationalism's fate after World War II.
LC Classification Number
DT1945.I79 2012
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