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Red Internationalism: Anti-Imperialism and Human Rights in the Global Sixties and Seventies

Mohandesi, Salar·2023·Cambridge University Press eBooks
DOI 10.1017/9781009076128
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In Red Internationalism, Salar Mohandesi returns to the Vietnam War to offer a new interpretation of the transnational left's most transformative years. In the 1960s, radicals mobilized ideas from the early twentieth century to reinvent a critique of imperialism that promised not only to end the war but also to overthrow the global system that made such wars possible. Focusing on encounters between French, American, and Vietnamese radicals, Mohandesi explores how their struggles did change the world, but in unexpected ways that allowed human rights to increasingly displace anti-imperialism as the dominant idiom of internationalism. When anti-imperialism collapsed in the 1970s, human rights emerged as a hegemonic alternative channeling anti-imperialism's aspirations while rejecting systemic change. Approaching human rights as neither transhistorical truth nor cynical imperialist ruse but instead as a symptom of anti-imperialism's epochal crisis, Red Internationalism dramatizes a shift that continues to affect prospects for emancipatory political change in the future.

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Authors
Mohandesi, S.
Affiliations
Bowdoin College (US)
Corresponding author
Mohandesi, Salar
Venue
Cambridge University Press eBooks
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published
2023-02-05
DOI
10.1017/9781009076128
OpenAlex
W4319221856
Cited by
18
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0
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3
FWCI
6.48
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
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www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified)
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Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Communism, Protests, Social Movements
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies
Keywords
Vietnam War, anti-imperialism, human rights, radicalism, internationalism, transnationalism, 1960s, 1970s, hegemony

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