Date: 2022
Type: Article
A new agenda for the Global South : West Papua, the United Nations, and the politics of decolonization
Humanity : an international journal of human rights, humanitarianism, and development, 2022, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 66-85
KLUGE, Emma, A new agenda for the Global South : West Papua, the United Nations, and the politics of decolonization, Humanity : an international journal of human rights, humanitarianism, and development, 2022, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 66-85
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This article examines the West Papuan campaign for independence in the lead-up to the agreement signed between Indonesia and the Netherlands in 1962, leading to the recolonization of West Papua. West Papuan leaders argued for decolonization separate from Indonesia, based on their interpretations of United Nations principles and claims to a distinct ethnic identity. However, West Papuan claims were rejected because their understanding of self-determination clashed with international norms as well as Cold War and Afro-Asian political imperatives. This case study reveals the tension between recognizing the self-determination of peoples and the state-building imperatives of the UN.
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Published online: 9 June 2022
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74719
Full-text via DOI: 10.1353/hum.2022.0004
ISSN: 2151-4364; 2151-4372
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press)
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