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Fire and the Full Moon

Canada and Indonesia in a Decolonizing World
  • David Webster
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2010
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Fire and the Full Moon reassesses Canada’s postwar foreign policy objectives and national image through the gulf between rhetoric and reality in Canada’s response to decolonization in Indonesia and the Global South.

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David Webster is an assistant professor of international studies at the University of Regina.

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Jacques Bertrand, author of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Indonesia:
Webster’s detailed analysis of the perspectives of Canada’s foreign policy-makers and politicians on Indonesia, and Asia more generally, forms the fascinating core of this book. Fire and the Full Moon is about the disjuncture (intended or not) between the rhetoric and self-image of Canada’s foreign policy-makers and the reality of their actions. This is first-rate scholarship.

Robert Bothwell, author of Alliance and Illusion: Canada and the World, 1945-1984:
Fire and the Full Moon is a most welcome addition to the literature of Canadian foreign policy. Strikingly well written and deeply researched, the book explores an area that Canadian diplomats often ignored or took for granted – relations with Indonesia, one of the largest countries in Asia, and, in the 1960s especially, the epicentre of the Cold War in Asia. Webster expands our understanding of Canadian foreign relations in the twentieth century and reminds us of the importance of the Third World in the definition of Canadian policy abroad.


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eBook published on:
January 1, 2010
eBook ISBN:
9780774816854
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272
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7 b&w illustrations, 1 map
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