Internationalizing Colonial War
On the Unintended Consequences of the Interventions of the International Committee of the Red Cross in South-East Asia, 1945-1949
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4753333 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Boyd Van Dijk (0000-0002-9560-1532, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 250 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 243-283 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Past & Present (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-2746 • E-ISSN: 1477-464X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pastj/gtaa009 |
| OpenAlex | W3046915054 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
What is the relationship between decolonization and international law? Most historians agree that empires framed their colonial wars as emergencies in order to escape international scrutiny. After 1945, however, those same imperial powers invited the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to intervene in their wars of decolonization while resisting an official state of war. This article seeks to solve this puzzle by drawing attention to the ICRC's critical part in reshaping the international legal system regarding colonial war in the critical years before the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62) and the Bandung Conference (1955). In this formative period, the organization, together with anti-colonial activists, played a transformative role in contesting accepted ideas of global governance and international law while providing a new stage for anti-colonial resistance, with far-reaching consequences, not just for the ICRC's own institutional future, but also for the legitimization of (post-)colonial sovereignty in the twentieth century
Colonialism · Decolonization · Independence (probability theory) · International law · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scrutiny · Sociology · Sovereignty · African history and culture studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |