Nehru's Bandung: Non-Alignment and Regional Order in Indian Cold War Strategy

by Andrea Benvenuti

This book sheds light on a neglected aspect of India's Cold War diplomacy, starting with the role of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his Congress government in organizing the first Asian-African Conference in Bandung in April 1955. Andrea Benvenuti shows how, in the early Cold War, Nehru seized the opportunity accorded by the conference to transcend growing international tensions and pursue an alternative vision: a neutralized Asian "area...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197790232
• ISBN13: 9780197790236
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.8"