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The Lived International is a poetic account of Stephen Chan's
personal engagement in International Relations. It speaks to the
inadequacy of an abstract voyeurism while the problems of the world
are death, devastation and underdevelopment. Drawn from a lifetime
of travel and engagement, and from both published and hitherto
unpublished poetry, forming a parallel list to the author's
academic works, the book seeks to inject into debate the sense that
language, spoken and written discourse alone, are not a sufficient
claim to 'bearing witness', and that even activism from afar can
often fail to understand a human condition that afflicts the
majority of the world's population. Chan demonstrates that a life
of praxis, living international relations, yields more insights
than a life of theory alone.
The Lived International is a poetic account of Stephen Chan's
personal engagement in International Relations. It speaks to the
inadequacy of an abstract voyeurism while the problems of the world
are death, devastation and underdevelopment. Drawn from a lifetime
of travel and engagement, and from both published and hitherto
unpublished poetry, forming a parallel list to the author's
academic works, the book seeks to inject into debate the sense that
language, spoken and written discourse alone, are not a sufficient
claim to 'bearing witness', and that even activism from afar can
often fail to understand a human condition that afflicts the
majority of the world's population. Chan demonstrates that a life
of praxis, living international relations, yields more insights
than a life of theory alone.
The post-1959 Cuban government's engagement with Africa, which was
led by its charismatic and revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, had
two connecting dimensions: military internationalism and
humanitarian internationalism. While African states and societies
benefited immensely from these engagements, it was Fidel Castro's
military assistance towards the decolonization of and the pushback
of Apartheid South Africa that received the loudest attention and
ovation in the developing world. Fidel Castro, this book argues,
was never motivated by economic, selfish, or geopolitical
considerations; but rather, by the altruism and the certainty of
his worldview and by the historical connection between the peoples
of Cuba and Africa. The principle of international solidary,
socialism, and the emancipation of Africa was a much-desired
aspiration and attainment. Beginning covertly in Algeria in 1961
and the Congo and Guinea-Bissau in 1964; and more conspicuously in
Angola in 1975, Fidel Castro and his socialist government was at
the forefront supporting liberation movements in their struggle
against colonialism. Defining Castro's engagement with Africa was
his support for the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola
(MPLA) against the United States-backed Apartheid South Africa,
which supported the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) and
the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).
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