The United States and Decolonization

Power and Freedom

D. Ryan, V. Pungong, D. Ryan, V. Pungong

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN:
  9781349406449
  9780333730553
• eBook ISBN:
  9780333977958
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

At the international level the twentieth century was characterized by the rise in national self-determination in the Third World and by the rise of US power. This book analyzes the dynamics of the changing relationships between the United States and states seeking decolonization, within the contexts of the US relationship with the European colonial powers, the Cold War, and the economic system. Its scope is broad in both space and time. This collection of articles brings together leading scholars as well as recently qualified authors on a subject that was confined in the Cold War paradigm, but ultimately needs to transcend it.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on the Contributors
• Foreword
• By Way of Introduction: The United States, Decolonization and the World System
• 1 The American View of Decolonization, 1776–1920: an Ironic Legacy
• 2 The Road to Our America: the United States in Latin America and the Caribbean
• 3 ‘Adjusting to a New Period in World History’: Franklin Roosevelt and European Colonialism
• 4 The United States and the International Trusteeship System
• 5 The Ironies of History: the United States and the Decolonization of India
• 6 How We ‘Lost’ Vietnam, 1940–54
• 7 The Limits of Ideology: US Foreign Policy and Arab Nationalism in the Early Cold War
• 8 The United States and the Decolonization of Black Africa, 1945–63
• 9 The United States and Britain’s Decolonization of Malaya, 1942–57
• 10 Conclusions: the Decolonization Puzzle in US Policy: Promise versus Performance
• 11 Afterword
• Select Bibliography
• Index