Ryan M Irwin

Gordian Knot

Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780199855612
• ISBN-10: 0199855617
• Artikelnr.: 35302020

Autorenporträt

Ryan Irwin is the Associate Director of International Security Studies at Yale University. He teaches classes on foreign affairs and decolonization and coordinates programs related to Yale's international history program.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Opening the Curtain
Part One · Winds of Change
1. Architects and Earthquakes
2. Defining the Debate
3. Africa for the Africans
Part Two · White Redoubt
4. Halls of Justice
5. The Status Quo
6. Looking Outward
Conclusion: Toward a New Order
Notes
Bibliography
Index