Security and Nationalism in the Indian Ocean: Lessons from the Latin Quarter Islands

ISBN-13: 9780367302375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 260 str.

Philip M. Allen

Opis

This study discusses the historical legacies of British power and French cultural tradition in the maritime Latin Quarter, the influence of twentieth-century nationalism in Asia and Africa, the islands' vulnerability to the vicissitudes of international markets, and the competition in the region between major security systems.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Security and Authority in the Indian Ocean -- The Southwestern Islands: Latin Quarter of the Indian Ocean -- Comoros: The Contumely of Patriarchies -- Réunion Assimilation Vindicated -- Mauritius: Refractions of the Nations -- Seychelles: A Place in the Sea -- Madagascar: Riding Its Own Tiger -- A Latin Afro-Asia: Islands in Communion -- Paradoxes of Security, Reality of Power -- Authority and Security in the Zone of Peace -- Tables and Maps -- UN General Assembly Resolution Declaring the Indian Ocean a Zone of Peace, Resolution 2832 (XXVI), December 16, 1971 -- UN General Assembly Resolution on the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace, December 1986

O autorze

Phillip M. Allen