6. RESISTING GLOBAL HEGEMONY

Abstract

The Bandung Conference played a constructive role in mobilizing a movement against the bipolar hegemony of the post World War II period. This period, from Yalta (1945) to Malta (1989), can be characterized as an international neo-colonial regime in a post-colonial world. Despite political, economical and cultural differences, the Third World states represented at Bandung called for a counter hegemonic alliance based on the principles of peaceful coexistence (The Pancha Sila).¹ These principles enabled cooperation among the states and peoples of Asia and Africa. The Latin American states later joined this non-aligned movement. The principles of peaceful coexistence, which were first proclaimed by India and China, represented an imaginative reformulation of the modern Western framework of international systems established initially by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. This new framework, which based cooperation among the recently independent states on the Western principles of national sovereignty, stressed mutual respect and benefit in place of the Westphalia premise of international anarchy.

Citation

Mushakoji, K. (2005), "6. RESISTING GLOBAL HEGEMONY", Intriligator, M.D., Nikitin, A.I. and Tehranian, M. (Ed.) Eurasia (Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, Vol. 1), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 53-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1572-8323(04)01006-9