TY - BOOK ID - 30704095 TI - Making a world after empire : the Bandung moment and its political afterlives AU - Lee, Christopher J. AU - Prashad, Vijay PY - 2019 SN - 0896804682 9780896802773 0896802779 9780896804685 9780896805057 0896805050 9780896803220 0896803228 PB - Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Afro-Asian politics. KW - Imperialism KW - Decolonization KW - History KW - Asian-African Conference KW - Influence. KW - Asia KW - Africa KW - Relations KW - African-Asian politics KW - Asian-African politics KW - Bandung Conference KW - Asian and Pacific Council countries KW - Sovereignty KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Colonization KW - Postcolonialism KW - World politics KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - ConfeĢrence de Bandung UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30704095 AB - In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world. Representing approximately two-thirds of the world's population, the Bandung conference occurred during a key moment of transition in the mid-twentieth century-amid the global wave of decolonization that took place after the Second World War and the nascent establishment of a new cold war world order in its wake. Participants such as Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Zhou ER -