(Source: OxfordBibliographies)
Oxfordbibliographies has just published a new bibliography
on “decolonization in international law”.
“In Gillo Pontecorvo’s evocative film The Battle of Algiers (1966),
viewers reach the conclusion that the fight against colonialism would not be
fought at the UN General Assembly. Decolonization would take place through the
organized resistance of colonized people. Still, the 1945 United Nations
Charter and the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights provided some legal
basis, albeit tenuous, for self-determination. When Third World leaders
assembled in the 1955 Bandung Conference, it became clear that the UN needed to
shift gears on the question of decolonization. By 1960, and through a show of
Asian and African votes at the General Assembly, the Declaration for the
Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples was adopted,
effectively outlawing colonialism and affirming the right of all peoples to
self-determination.” […]
The full bibliography can be
found here
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