| Bandung Revisited: The Legacy of the 1955 Asian-African Conference for International Order Contributor(s): Acharya, Amitav (Editor), Tan, See Seng (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9971693933 ISBN-13: 9789971693930 Publisher: NUS Press OUR PRICE: $21.78 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science |
| Dewey: 327.5 |
| LCCN: 2008339447 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The 1955 Asia-Africa conference (the "Bandung Conference") was a meeting of 29 Asian and African nations that sought to draw on Asian and African nationalism and religious traditions to forge a new international order that was neither communist nor capitalist, and led six years later to the non-aligned movement. Few would dispute the notion that the inaugural meeting in 1955 was a watershed in international history, but there is much disagreement about its long-term legacy and its significance for present-day international affairs. Was it a post-colonial ideological reaction to the passing of the age of empire or an innovative effort to promote a new regionalism? Were its principles of peaceful coexistence a rhetorical flourish or a substantive policy initiative? Did the Conference help define North-South relations? And in what way did the Conference contribute to the regional order of contemporary Asia? The authors in the present volume argue that the Bandung Conference had a lasting normative influence on the contemporary regional order of Asia, and that it underlies the diplomatic principles and loosely defined normative framework that characterize present-day Asian international relations. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tan, See Seng: - See Seng Tan is professor of international relations at Nanyang Technological University. |