Description: The end of World War II heralded a new global order. Decolonization swept the world and the United Nations, founded in 1945, came to embody the hopes of the world's colonized people as an instrument of freedom. North Africa became a particularly contested region and events there reverberated around the world. In Morocco, the emerging nationalist movement developed social networks that spanned three continents and engaged supporters from CIA agents, British journalists, and Asian diplomats to a Coca-Cola manager and a former First Lady. Globalizing Morocco traces how these networks helped the nationalists achieve independence-and then enabled the establishment of an authoritarian monarchy that persists today. David Stenner tells the story of the Moroccan activists who managed to sway world opinion against the French and Spanish colonial authorities to gain independence, and in so doing illustrates how they contributed to the formation of international relations during the early Cold War. Looking at post-1945 world politics from the Moroccan vantage point, we can see fissures in the global order that allowed the peoples of Africa and Asia to influence a hierarchical system whose main purpose had been to keep them at the bottom. In the process, these anticolonial networks created an influential new model for transnational activism that remains relevant still to contemporary struggles.
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EAN: 9781503608993
UPC: 9781503608993
ISBN: 9781503608993
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Book Title: Globalizing Morocco: Transnational Activism and th
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Globalizing Morocco : Transnational Activism and the Postcolonial State
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Modern / 20th Century, International Relations / General, Africa / North, Political Process / Political Advocacy, Customs & Traditions, Middle East / General, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.9 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Author: David Stenner
Item Width: 7.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
