Portugal and the UN

A Rogue State Resisting the Norm of Decolonization (1956–1974)

Bibliographic Data

ID11487400
AuthorsBárbara Carvalho Reis (0000-0002-2544-6696, corresponding author), Bruno Cardoso Reis Bruno Cardoso Reis
Year2013
Volume29
Issue2
Pages251
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePortuguese Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0267-5315 • E-ISSN: 2222-4270
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5699/portstudies.29.2.0251
OpenAlexW2475379261
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited5

This article places the resistance by the Portuguese government to the growing wave of anti-colonialism in the UN in the context of wider debates regarding the role of the latter in the international history of decolonization and the dynamics of state resistance to UN norm-setting. It compares Portuguese and Belgian diplomatic approaches to anti-colonialism at the UN with the aim of improving our understanding of how successful and how specific the Portuguese policy towards decolonization really was. More specifically this article aims to explain why the Portuguese State sought entry to and remained in a UN hostile to overseas empires, and why it persisted in ‘a denial of colonialism, despite its failure as a conventional diplomatic strategy

Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Decolonization · Denial · Government (linguistics · Norm (philosophy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · International Development and Aid · Law · Philosophy · Psychology

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