United Nations Trusteeship System

Jan Lüdert is the Head of Programs at the German Center for Research and Innovation in New York City. He previously served as Associate Professor at City University of Seattle.Maria Ketzmerick is an assistant professor at the University of Bayreuth and a Principal Investigator in the Network 'Postcolonial Hierarchies'.Julius Heise is a doctoral researcher at the Marburg Center for Conflict Studies (CCS) and research fellow at the collaborative research center 'Dynamics of Security'.

• 1.Introduction  2.Institutional Design of the UN Trusteeship System: Between Colonial Interests & Anti-colonial Ambitions  3.Decolonization and (the limits of) UN Agency: The UN Secretariat and the Trusteeship System  4.Partitioning Togoland by Nullifying the Right to Petition  5.A Colonial War under UN-Supervision? The Trusteeship System and the Silenced War in Cameroon  6.Colonial Legacies of Decolonization: The Trust Territory of Somaliland and Italian Behavior towards the Horn of Africa  7.Nuclear Testing on the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: How the US became an imperial power in the region of Micronesia  8.“Now the UN has its first colony”: Technical Assistance and Informal Trusteeship during the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Congo, 1960  9.Breaking with the Past? Neo-Trusteeship in the 21st Century  10.Trusteeship as Affective Arrangement: Exploring Affective Practices of an International Bureaucracy

‘The United Nations Trusteeship System offers a compelling global exploration of the phenomenon of trusteeship in the second half of the twentieth century. Building on an extensive body of scholarship on the United Nations Trusteeship System, these scholars elucidate important continuities with the past but also critical resonances with the present. The chapters in this volume expertly navigate between the global and the local and offer historical perspectives from both Western actors and the inhabitants of trust territories. This book will be essential reading for anyone looking to understand the history of the United Nations as well as scholars and students of European colonialism and decolonization in the twentieth century.’ Jessica Lynne Pearson, Macalester College, USA