Dall’anticolonialismo all’anti-imperialismo yankee nei movimenti terzomondisti di fine anni Sessanta
The article focuses on the rise of third-worldism as a form of political solidarity with many decolonization conflicts spread in the 1950s and 1960s and its transformation in a one-sided idea of anti-imperialism that put the US foreign politics at the centre of the international stage. This kind of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BraDypUS
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Storicamente |
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| Online Access: | http://storicamente.org/tolomelli-dall-anticolonialismo-all-anti-imperialismo |
| Summary: | The article focuses on the rise of third-worldism as a form of political solidarity with many decolonization conflicts spread in the 1950s and 1960s and its transformation in a one-sided idea of anti-imperialism that put the US foreign politics at the centre of the international stage. This kind of selective criticism – addressing the so-called yankee imperialism – grounded principally on the US military intervention in Vietnam since 1965 but eventually it evolved in a kind of ideological paradigm that made of the USA the unique cause of all problems affecting states emerged from decolonization. This ideological turn hindered a deep and wide understanding of the complex and manifold forms of entanglements that followed, replaced and in some cases occurred as new factors within the world order established in the second half of the 20th century. |
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| ISSN: | 1825-411X |