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
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.
Irwin's book offers insight into how apartheid struck at the root
of the postcolonial narriative of justice and how it was used at
the UN as a vehicle to challenge the liberal international order
and the legitimacy of the nation state system. ... this is a
critical addition to the field of literature. This gripping
reinterpretation of the organisation and its use for burgeoning
nation states raises many broader questions about the role of the
UN as an agent of change in the international system.
*Alanna O'Malley, Journal of African History*
Overall, this is an outstanding book. It is well-researched,
crisply written, and thought-provoking.
*Diplomatic History*
an enrichment for transnational and global history studies ... I
can only join others reviewers in their appreciation of the book
and hope that it will continue to be received widely and will find
its way into curricula of Global, African and International
Studies.
*Angela Glodschei, geschichte.transnational*
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