TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walker,Lydia
TI  - States-in-waiting: a counternarrative of global decolonization 
T2  - Global and international history
SN  - 9781009305815 (ebook)
AV  - JF529 .W35 2024
U1  - 320.9 23/eng/20240110
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Pressure groups
KW  - World politics
KW  - Decolonization
KW  - Self-determination, National
KW  - National liberation movements
KW  - Sovereignty
KW  - Recognition (International law)
KW  - Minorities
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Ethnic groups
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 May 2024); Part 1. Nationalist Claims-Making -- Part 2. International Advocacy -- Part 3. The Boundaries of Decolonization; Open Access
N2  - After the Second World War, national self-determination became a recognized international norm, yet it only extended to former colonies. Groups within postcolonial states that made alternative sovereign claims were disregarded or actively suppressed. Showcasing their contested histories, Lydia Walker offers a powerful counternarrative of global decolonization, highlighting little-known regions, marginalized individuals, and their hidden (or lost) archives. She depicts the personal connections that linked disparate nationalist struggles across the globe through advocacy networks, demonstrating that these advocates had their own agendas and allegiances, which, she argues, could undermine the autonomy of the claimants they supported. By foregrounding particular nationalist movements in South Asia and Southern Africa and their transnational advocacy networks, States-in-Waiting illuminates the un-endings of decolonization-the unfinished and improvised ways that the state-centric international system replaced empire, which left certain claims of sovereignty perpetually awaiting recognition. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009305815
ER  -