Third World Colonialism and Strategies of Liberation

Eritrea and East Timor Compared

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Av Awet Tewelde Weldemichael

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By analyzing Ethiopia's rule over Eritrea and Indonesia's rule over East Timor, Third World Colonialism and Strategies of Liberation compares the colonialism of powerful third world countries on their small, less powerful neighbors. Through a comparative study of Eritrean and East Timorese grand strategies of liberation, this book documents the inner workings of the nationalist movements and traces the sources of government types in these countries. In doing so, Awet Tewelde Weldemichael challenges existing notions of grand strategy as a unique prerogative of the West and opposes established understanding of colonialism as an exclusively Western project on the non-Western world. In addition to showing how Eritrea and East Timor developed sophisticated military and non-military strategies, Weldemichael emphasizes that the insurgents avoided terrorist methods when their colonizers indiscriminately bombed their countries, tortured and executed civilians, held them hostage, starved them deliberately, and continuously threatened them with harsher measures.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-11-19
Mått162 x 236 x 27 mm
Vikt630 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor363
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107031234

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Introduction; 1. Swaggering empires and defiant 'new provinces'; 2. Bittersweet replicas of foreign experiences and reform; 3. Toward reorganization and reorientation: Eritrean fragmentation and East Timorese near-defeat; 4. Victims of their own success: the revitalized nationalist movements and their challenges; 5. Eritrean and East Timorese diplomacy of liberation; 6. To Asmara through Addis Ababa and Dili via Jakarta; 7. Winning insurgencies and counterinsurgencies in a changing global order; 8. The promise and quandary of 'infusing fresh blood' and 'inaugurating new politics'; Conclusion.

'In Third World Colonialism and Strategies of Liberation, Awet Tewelde Weldemichael narrates the experiences of these remarkable but often under-appreciated nationalist movements during struggles against both primary (European) and secondary (regional) colonial powers with a rare combination of laser-like precision and contextual breadth and depth that brings them alive and renders them comprehensible on their own terms. The unique strength of this work lies in the details he has ferreted out from key actors and informants, much of it available for the first time, that gives them both texture and density. In doing so, he provides us with one of the most clear and compelling accounts so far on not one but two intensely complex but vitally important political events, traditionally treated as isolated anomalies.' Dan Connell, author of Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution