Forging an Anti-Bandung
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12458339 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mohammed Alsudairi (0000-0001-5427-5024, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 412-426 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1089-201X • E-ISSN: 1548-226X |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/1089201x-10892763 |
| OpenAlex | W4390331391 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
During the course of the Cold War, Saudi Arabia cultivated close relations with the anti-communist states of East Asia. This development, this article argues, was driven by the shared positional marginality experienced by these actors vis-à-vis the Third World bloc. Unable to participate in the postcolonial possibilities unleashed in the mid-twentieth century, these states drew upon each other's visions of pan-Islamism and anti-communism to forge an “anti-Bandung.” As threats from the global Left intensified by the late 1960s, their reactionary solidarity transformed into an informal yet highly strategic alliance that lasted until the end of the global Cold War. This article calls for a broader conceptualization of inter-Asian and Afro-Asian solidarities that incorporates the narratives and activities of the non-Western Right and provides a new reading of Cold War Saudi Arabia that considers its complicated entanglements with Asia-centric anti-communist internationalism
Alliance · Cold war · Communism · Internationalism (politics · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reactionary · Sociology · Solidarity · Vision · Anthropology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law
The Global Cold War
A Near-Normalisation? Sino-Saudi Diplomatic Flirtations between 1955 and 1957
The Encircled Kingdom
Saudi Arabia and the Reagan Doctrine
Revolutionaries for the Right
Shadow Cold War
Circuits of Faith
Dynamics of the Cold War in Asia
Koreans in the Persian Gulf
Spiritual Fraternities
Islam in Saudi Foreign Policy
Resisting Bandung? Taiwan’s Struggle for ‘Representational Legitimacy’ in the Rise of the Asian Peoples’ Anti-Communist League, 1954-57
Notes of a visit to mainland China
Xinjiang and the modern Chinese state
Kissinger, Ford, and Congress
Saudi Arabia and Non-Alignment
History without Documents”
Building Egypt's Afro-Asian Hub
Other Bandungs
The Rise and Fall of Afro-Asian Solidarity
Cold-War Cleavages as Seen from the United Nations General Assembly
A Counter-Revolutionary State
Diasporic Cold Warriors
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |