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Nehru's Bandung: Non-Alignment and Regional Order in Indian Cold War Strategy

Nehru's Bandung: Non-Alignment and Regional Order in Indian Cold War Strategy - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Andrea BenvenutiPublish date:2024-08-01Pages:392
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197790236ISBN-10:197790232UPC:9780197790236Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Asia, International RelationsBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.80 x 5.80 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SCBGCJQMQK
This book sheds light on a neglected aspect of India's Cold War diplomacy, starting with the role of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his Congress government in organizing the first Asian-African Conference in Bandung in April 1955. Andrea Benvenuti shows how, in the early Cold War, Nehru seized the opportunity accorded by the conference to transcend growing international tensions and pursue an alternative vision: a neutralized Asian "area of peace," underpinned by a code of conduct based on the five principles of peaceful coexistence.

Relying on Indian, Western and Chinese archival sources, Nehru's Bandung focuses on the policy concerns and calculations, as well as the international factors, that drove a skeptical Nehru to support Indonesia's diplomatic push for such a gathering. It reveals how, in Nehru's estimation, Bandung also served a further important purpose--securing China's commitment to peaceful coexistence, without which stability in Asia would be illusory.

Nehru's support for an Asian-African conference did not derive from an emotional commitment to Afro-Asian internationalism. Instead, it stemmed from a desire to promote a 'third way' in an increasingly polarized world, and to forge a stable regional order--one that would enhance India's external security and domestic prosperity.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197790236ISBN-10:197790232UPC:9780197790236Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Asia, International RelationsBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.80 x 5.80 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SCBGCJQMQK
Andrea Benvenuti is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales, teaching twentieth-century international history at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He holds a DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford. His current research focuses on the Cold War in Asia.
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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