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Book Synopsis
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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Canada, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Indonesia, 1945–49

2 The Golden Bridge: Canada and Indonesian Economic Development, 1950–63

3 Non-state Networks and Modernizing Elites in the Sukarno Years

4 Canada, Alliance Politics, and the West New Guinea Dispute, 1957–63

5 Canada, Confrontation, and the End of Empire in Southeast Asia, 1963–66

6 A Pebble in Many Shoes: Development in Indonesia, Decolonization in East Timor, 1968–99

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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      Publisher University of British Columbia Press
      Published 1 September 2009
      ISBN-13 9780774816830
      978-0774816830
      ISBN-10 077481683X
      Also in:
      National liberation and independence Diplomacy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      1 Canada, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Indonesia, 1945–49

      2 The Golden Bridge: Canada and Indonesian Economic Development, 1950–63

      3 Non-state Networks and Modernizing Elites in the Sukarno Years

      4 Canada, Alliance Politics, and the West New Guinea Dispute, 1957–63

      5 Canada, Confrontation, and the End of Empire in Southeast Asia, 1963–66

      6 A Pebble in Many Shoes: Development in Indonesia, Decolonization in East Timor, 1968–99

      Conclusion

      Notes

      Bibliography

      Index

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