Cold War Reckonings : : Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization.

• Author: Watson, Jini Kim.
• Ort / Verlag: New York : : Fordham University Press,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• Beschreibung: 1 online resource (297 pages)
• Weitere Titel: Cold War Reckonings; Frontmatter --; Contents --; Note on Romanizations --; Introduction: Ruling Like a Foreigner: Theorizing “Free World” Authoritarianism in the Asia- Pacific Cold War --; Part I. Authorities of Alignment, 1955–1988 --; Part II. Genres of Cold War Reckoning, 1997–2017 --; Epilogue: Authoritarian Lessons for Neoliberal Times --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Zusammenfassung: Cold War Reckonings shows how the Cold War shaped culture and political power in the decolonizing world and gave rise, paradoxically, to authoritarian regimes of the so-called free world.
• ISBN: 0823294854
• Hierarchiestufe: Monografie

Cold War Reckonings shows how the Cold War shaped culture and political power in the decolonizing world and gave rise, paradoxically, to authoritarian regimes of the so-called free world.