Decolonizing Diplomacy

Senghor, Kennedy, and the Practice of Ideological Resistance

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2098526
AutoresYohann C Ripert (0000-0002-1065-6631, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume64
Fascículo2
Páginas292-314
Data de publicação2021-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAfrican Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/asr.2020.91
OpenAlexW3120183986
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas30

At the turn of the 1960s, Léopold Sédar Senghor and John F. Kennedy vowed to radically transform African foreign policy. Through a close reading of a recently declassified correspondence and a historical analysis of two behind-the-scenes negotiations, Senghor's first state visit to the U.S. and Kennedy's support for the First World Festival of Negro Arts, Ripert examines the private and public concatenations that lead both statesmen to transform policymaking not by implementing new policies but by challenging inherited ideologies. Though their efforts did not always bring successful change in policymaking, the diplomatic correspondence between the two newly elected leaders reveals a more subtle and sustainable transformation: a decolonization of diplomacy

Decolonization · Diplomacy · Extension (predicate logic · Ideology · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · State (computer science · African history and culture studies · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Computer Science · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law