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FIRE AND THE FULL MOON
CANADA AND INDONESIA IN A DECOLONIZING WORLD |
| By: |
David Webster |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
077481683X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780774816830 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
28 August, 2009 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
Fire and the Full Moon reassesses Canada's postwar foreign policy objectives and national image through the gulf between rhetoric and reality in Canada's response to decolonization in Indonesia and the Global South. |
| Synopsis: |
The history of Canada's postwar foreign policy is dominated byCold War narratives - the Gouzenko Affair, UNpeacekeeping missions, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. By contrast, thestory of Canada's response to decolonization in the Global Southis less well known.Fire and the Full Moon focuses on Canadian-Indonesianrelations to explore a larger question: Was Canada's postwarforeign policy guided by an overarching set of altruistic principles,or did its policy objectives in the South follow a different path? Itframes Canada's response to the Indonesian struggle forindependence in the context of other regional decolonization movementsand US and Commonwealth relations with Asia and shows that Canadaoperated as a loyal member of the Western alliance, hoping thatIndonesia would follow Canada's own, non-revolutionary, model ofdecolonization and development. Canadian economic development policiescaused Canada to overlook Indonesian human rights violations in EastTimor.Fire and the Full Moon is a work of trans-Pacificinternational history that reassesses Canada's foreign-policyobjectives in Indonesia, and its own national image, which will appealto students of diplomatic history interested in Asia and the developingworld. |
| Illustrations: |
7 b&w illustrations, 1 map |
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Canada |
| Imprint: |
University of British Columbia Press |
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