Cold War superpower rivalry froze UN membership and pushed new states to Bandung.
Evidence
The Bandung conference “was a result of their frustration with the political logjam surrounding new membership in the United Nations. By 1953/54 no new members had been inducted into the organization since the acceptance of Indonesia in January 1950. The 1955 meeting in Bandung was attended by delegations from 29, primarily new, nation-states or nationalist movements in Asia and Africa” (Berger 2004, 11–12). The political logjam at the UN had resulted mainly from the Cold War rivalry of the superpowers. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1293
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to post-WWII institutional history and the formation of the non-aligned movement. — connects to: Bandung’s anticolonial front was already split along Cold War lines — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 276; Cold War superpower rivalry distorted the development of postcolonial states — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 1203; Cold War US hegemony in the Middle East collided with nationalist independence movements — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 638 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Cold War superpower rivalry distorted the development of postcolonial states
#expands(0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1203 - Cold War US hegemony in the Middle East collided with nationalist independence movements
#exemplifies(0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 638 - Cold war rivalry shielded genocides from international enforcement
#exemplifies(0.75) — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 466 - Nehru barred imperialist-critique discussion at Bandung as a governmental gathering
#responds-to(0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 559 - Cold War alliances crossed civilizations but postwar groupings are realigning around civilizational lines.
#qualifies(0.70) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 426