Colonialism and Self-determination
o Paris 1919
Expanding European (plus US and Japanese) empires Search for new colonies Britain, France, etc Sub-imperial powers eg Australia League of Nations mandate system Self-determination for nations in Eastern and Central Europe (Poland, Czechoslovakia, etc) Clashes over borders & ethnicities Quest for independence in the colonized world (Egypt, Korea, etc.)
o Bandung 1955
Newly independent former colonies seeking to chart their own destinies Models of decolonization Completing independence in economic realm? Self-determination for whom?
o Vienna 1993
171 states (32 at Paris 1919, 54 at founding of UN 1945) Decolonization completed? new states from former Yugoslavia and USSR self-determination & conflict in eastern Europe continues decolonization struggles continue in global South (eg East Timor)
• War & postwar
o “Total war”
o Postwar moments
o Hope & efforts to reconstruct
o Disappointments can fuel future conflicts
• Security
o Alliances/military blocs
o Great powers & smaller powers
o Non-governmental organizations (from Pan-African Congress to Amnesty)
• North-South gaps
o Racial inequality
o Economic inequality
o Economic development as a human right
• Nationalism and Internationalism
o International organizations
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