Mecca of Revolution Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order
Mecca of Revolution Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order
- ISBN 13:
9780199899142
- ISBN 10:
0199899142
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 04/12/2016
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Drawing on unprecedented access to archival materials from the FLN, the independent Algerian state, and half a dozen other countries, Byrne narrates a postcolonial, or "South-South," international history. He situates dominant paradigms such as the Cold War in the larger context of decolonization and sheds new light on the relationships between the emergent elites of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America.
Mecca of Revolution shows how Third Worldism evolved from a subversive transnational phenomenon into a mode of elite cooperation that reinforced the authority of the post-colonial state. In so doing, the Third World movement played a key role in the construction of the totalizing international order of the late-twentieth century.