Metropolitan Identities and Twentieth-Century Decolonization focuses on the processes involved in metropolitan identity construction, maintenance, and change, and their role in decolonization, an event integral to world politics but little studied in international relations. Tan examines the British response to Indian nationalism during the interwar period and the Indonesian disengagement from East Timor, and complicates the existing ideational and constructivist picture that the adoption of positive norms like racial equality, democracy, human rights, and self-determination by colonial...