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The Tricontinental Revolution provides a major reassessment of the global rise and impact of Tricontinentalism, the militant strand of Third World solidarity that defined the 1960s and 1970s as decades of rebellion. Cold War interventions highlighted the limits of decolonization, prompting a generation of global South radicals to adopt expansive visions of self-determination. Long associated with Cuba, this anti-imperial worldview stretched far beyond the Caribbean to unite international revolutions around programs of socialism, armed revolt, economic sovereignty, and confrontational diplomacy. Linking independent nations with non-state movements from North Vietnam through South Africa to New York City, Tricontinentalism encouraged marginalized groups to mount radical challenges to the United States and the inequitable Euro-centric international system. Through eleven expert essays, this volume recenters global political debates on the priorities and ideologies of the Global South, providing a new framework, chronology, and tentative vocabulary for understanding the evolution of anti-imperial and decolonial politics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Table des matières
Introduction: Tricontinentalism and the anti-imperial project R. Joseph Parrott; Part I. Chronologies of third worldism: 1. Global solidarity before the Tricontinental Conference: Latin America and the League Against Imperialism Anne Garland Mahler; 2. Tricontinentalism: the construction of global political alliances Rafael Hernández and Jennifer Ruth Hosek; 3. The PLO and the limits of secular revolution, 1975-1982 Paul Thomas Chamberlin; Part II. A global worldview: 4. Fueling the world revolution: Vietnamese communist internationalism, 1954-1975 Pierre Asselin; 5. Through the looking glass: African National Congress and the Tricontinental Revolution Ryan Irwin; 6. The romance of revolutionary transatlanticism: Cuban-Algerian relations and the diverging trends within third world internationalism Jeffrey James Byrne; Part III. Superpower responses to Tricontinentalism: 7. Reddest place north of Havana: the Tricontinental and the struggle to lead the 'third world' Jeremy Friedman; 8. 'A propaganda boon for us': the Havana Tricontinental Conference and the United States response Eric Gettig; Part IV. Frustrated visions: 9. Brother and a comrade: Amílcar Cabral as global revolutionary R. Joseph Parrott; 10. 'Two, three, many Vietnams': Che Guevara's Tricontinental revolutionary vision Michelle D. Paranzino; 11. From Playa Girón to Luanda: mercenaries and internationalist fighters Eric Covey; Afterword: patterns and puzzles Mark Atwood Lawrence.
A propos de l'auteur
R. Joseph Parrott is Assistant Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He is a historian of diplomacy, transnational activism, and US-Africa relations, with an emphasis on the intersection of decolonization, race, and domestic politics.Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History at The University of Texas at Austin. He has written extensively on twentieth-century America and especially American foreign relations. His most recent book is The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era (2021).
Résumé
The book provides a major reassessment of the global origins and impact of Tricontinentalism. As Cold War interventions revealed the limits of decolonization, socialist revolutions in Asia, Africa, and Latin America used armed revolts and confrontational diplomacy to challenge the United States and the inequitable international system it supported.
Préface
A major reassessment of the rise and global impact of revolutionary Third World radicalism in the 1960s and 1970s.
