11 February 2019

BOOK REVIEW: W.S. Utama on Luis Eslava et al., Bandung, Global History, and International Law. Critical Pasts and Pending Futures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 2017


(Source: Hsozkult)

Hsozkult has published a review of the book Bandung, Global History, and International Law. Critical Pasts and Pending Futures by Wildan Sena Utama (Universitas Gadjah Mada)

On 18–24 April 1955, the Asian-African Conference, with delegates from twenty-nine independent and nearly independent Asian and African countries, took place in Bandung, Indonesia. This conference, widely known as the Bandung Conference, was the first endeavor in the postcolonial era to gather the leaders of Asian and African countries. President Sukarno of Indonesia, who delivered the opening speech of the conference, described it as “the first international conference of colored peoples in the history of mankind […]

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