In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the
Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung,
Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial
world. Ostensibly representing two-thirds of the world’s
population, the Bandung conference occurred during a key moment of
transition in the mid-twentieth century—amid the global wave of
decolonization that took place after the Second World War and the
nascent establishment of a new Cold War world order in its wake.
Participants such as Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdel Nasser
of Egypt, Zhou Enlai of China, and Sukarno of Indonesia seized this
occasion to attempt the creation of a political alternative to the
dual threats of Western neocolonialism and the Cold War
interventionism of the United States and the Soviet Union. The
essays collected here explore the diverse repercussions of this
event, tracing diplomatic, intellectual, and sociocultural
histories that ensued as well as addressing the broader
intersection of postcolonial and Cold War history. With a new
foreword by Vijay Prashad and a new preface by the editor, Making a
World after Empire speaks to contemporary discussions of
decolonization, Third Worldism, and the emergence of the Global
South, thus reestablishing the conference’s importance in
twentieth-century global history. Contributors: Michael Adas, Laura
Bier, James R. Brennan, G. Thomas Burgess, Antoinette Burton,
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Julian Go, Christopher J. Lee, Jamie Monson,
Jeremy Prestholdt, and Denis M. Tull.
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