The book argues that there was always these two sides of anti colonial internationalism. Rite one, this minimalous kind of defense the states of the sovereign state, and then more ambitious projects such as regional authority or economic regulation. The second development that you talk about is the emergence of a kind of language of humanitarian intervention. And so our approach can't be a one that just wishes them away, but tries to work in, through and beyond them to transform the set of relations you write with the world making projects waning on the international stage.
Featuring Adom Getachew on the story of how decolonization struggles across the Black Atlantic tried to not only cast off European rule but also to remake the entire world system. An October 2019 episode from the archives.
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