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Fire and the Full Moon
Canada and Indonesia in a Decolonizing World
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David Webster
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English
Published/Copyright:
2010
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
David Webster is an assistant professor of international studies at the University of Regina.
Reviews
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.
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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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
January 1, 2010
eBook ISBN:
9780774816854
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
272
Other:
7 b&w illustrations, 1 map
eBook ISBN:
9780774816854
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Professional and scholarly;
