Colonial Wars and the Politics of Third World Nationalism

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Colonial Wars and the Politics of Third World Nationalism
by Frank Furedi
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Frank Furedi chronology
(books as sole author)
The New Ideology of Imperialism: Renewing the Moral Imperative
(1994)
Colonial Wars and the Politics of Third World Nationalism
(1994)
Culture of Fear: Risk Taking and the Morality of Low Expectation
(1997, revised edition 2002)

Colonial Wars and the Politics of Third World Nationalism is a book by the Hungarian sociologist Frank Furedi, published by IB Tauris in 1994 (ISBN 1-85043-784-X)

Contents

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[edit] Preface

[edit] Introduction

  1. Rethinking decolonisation
  2. Some of the arguments
  3. Recasting nationalism
  4. The Whitehall view

[edit] Part 1: The elaboration of the imperialist perspective

  1. The qualities of the anti-colonial response
    1. Warning signs
    2. The intellectual-politician
    3. That radical moment
    4. The texture of anti-colonialism
  2. The problem of control
    1. The moral crisis of imperialism
    2. The pressure from without
    3. Sensing a loss of control
  3. The response to 1948
    1. The trend towards the politics of force
    2. Mass politics experienced as the Cold War
    3. A problem of time interpreted as lack of intelligence
  4. Diagnosing disorder: imperial attitudes towards anti-colonial nationalism
    1. Intellectual dispositions
    2. Irrational nationalism
    3. A spiritual vacuum
    4. The assumptions of race
    5. Unworthy opponents

[edit] Part 2: Recasting Third World nationalism

  1. The conduct of colonial emergencies: the struggle for control
    1. The quest for control
    2. The decision to act
    3. Launching the emergencies
    4. The conduct of the emergencies
    5. Finding a new political balance
  2. Reshaping anti-colonial politics
    1. The role of counter-insurgency
    2. Reshshaping the political landscape
    3. The propaganda war
    4. Emergencies as object lessons
  3. Capturing the nationalist movement: the big split
    1. Guiding nationalism
    2. The problem of the masses
    3. Leaders and activists
    4. The big test
    5. Forcing the split
  4. Conclusions
    1. Recasting anti-colonial nationalism
    2. The changing imperial outlook
    3. Discrediting the unworthy opponents

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