By analyzing Ethiopia's rule over Eritrea and Indonesia's rule over East Timor, Third World Colonialism and Strategies of Liberation compares the colonialism of powerful third world countries on their small, less powerful neighbors. Through a comparative study of Eritrean and East Timorese grand strategies of liberation, this book documents the inner workings of the nationalist movements and traces the sources of government types in these countries. In doing so, Awet Tewelde Weldemichael challenges existing notions of grand strategy as a unique prerogative of the West and opposes established understanding of colonialism as an exclusively Western project on the non-Western world. In addition to showing how Eritrea and East Timor developed sophisticated military and non-military strategies, Weldemichael emphasizes that the insurgents avoided terrorist methods when their colonizers indiscriminately bombed their countries, tortured and executed civilians, held them hostage, starved them deliberately, and continuously threatened them with harsher measures.
By analyzing Ethiopia's rule over Eritrea and Indonesia's rule over East Timor, Third World Colonialism and Strategies of Liberation compares the colonialism of powerful third world countries on their small, less powerful neighbors. Through a comparative study of Eritrean and East Timorese grand strategies of liberation, this book documents the inner workings of the nationalist movements and traces the sources of government types in these countries. In doing so, Awet Tewelde Weldemichael challenges existing notions of grand strategy as a unique prerogative of the West and opposes established understanding of colonialism as an exclusively Western project on the non-Western world. In addition to showing how Eritrea and East Timor developed sophisticated military and non-military strategies, Weldemichael emphasizes that the insurgents avoided terrorist methods when their colonizers indiscriminately bombed their countries, tortured and executed civilians, held them hostage, starved them deliberately, and continuously threatened them with harsher measures.
Über den Autor
Awet Tewelde Weldemichael is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Kentucky. He is also Fernand Braudel Fellow at the French Humanities Foundation, University of Paris Diderot. He has worked as a political affairs officer for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in East Timor and as a long-term election observer with the Carter Center mission in Sudan.
Zusammenfassung
This book compares Eritrea and East Timor's grand strategies of liberation from Ethiopia and Indonesia, respectively. It challenges existing notions of grand strategy and colonialism as exclusive projects of the West, and in showing how Eritrea and East Timor developed sophisticated military and non-military strategies, Awet Tewelde Weldemichael emphasizes that these insurgents avoided terrorism as a method.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; 1. Swaggering empires and defiant 'new provinces'; 2. Bittersweet replicas of foreign experiences and reform; 3. Toward reorganization and reorientation: Eritrean fragmentation and East Timorese near-defeat; 4. Victims of their own success: the revitalized nationalist movements and their challenges; 5. Eritrean and East Timorese diplomacy of liberation; 6. To Asmara through Addis Ababa and Dili via Jakarta; 7. Winning insurgencies and counterinsurgencies in a changing global order; 8. The promise and quandary of 'infusing fresh blood' and 'inaugurating new politics'; Conclusion.
