Gordian Knot: Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order (Oxford Studies in International History)

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Writing a couple of hundred years ago, African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois speculated that the great catch 22 situation of the twentieth century will be the problem of “the color line.” Nowhere was once the catch 22 situation of racial discrimination more entrenched-and more complex-than South Africa.

Gordian Knot examines South Africa’s freedom struggle in the years surrounding African decolonization, the usage of the global apartheid debate to explore the way in which new nation-states changed the international community throughout the mid-twentieth century. On the highpoint of decolonization, South Africa’s problems shaped a transnational conversation about nationhood. Arguments about racial justice, which crested as Europe relinquished imperial keep an eye on of Africa and the Caribbean, elided a deeper contest over the meaning of sovereignty, territoriality, and development.

Based on research in African, American, and European archives, Gordian Knot advances a bold new interpretation about African decolonization’s relationship to American power. In so doing, it promises to make clear U.S. foreign relations with the Third World and recast understandings of the fate of liberal internationalism after World War II.

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