{"product_id":"nehrus-bandung-andrea-benvenuti-9780197790236","title":"Nehru's Bandung: Non-Alignment and Regional Order in Indian Cold War Strategy","description":"This book sheds light on a neglected aspect of India's Cold War diplomacy, starting with the role of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his Congress government in organizing the first Asian-African Conference in Bandung in April 1955. Andrea Benvenuti shows how, in the early Cold War, Nehru seized the opportunity accorded by the conference to transcend growing international tensions and pursue an alternative vision: a neutralized Asian \"area of peace,\" underpinned by a code of conduct based on the five principles of peaceful coexistence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRelying on Indian, Western and Chinese archival sources, \u003cem\u003eNehru's Bandung\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on the policy concerns and calculations, as well as the international factors, that drove a skeptical Nehru to support Indonesia's diplomatic push for such a gathering. It reveals how, in Nehru's estimation, Bandung also served a further important purpose--securing China's commitment to peaceful coexistence, without which stability in Asia would be illusory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNehru's support for an Asian-African conference did not derive from an emotional commitment to Afro-Asian internationalism. Instead, it stemmed from a desire to promote a 'third way' in an increasingly polarized world, and to forge a stable regional order--one that would enhance India's external security and domestic prosperity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrea Benvenuti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197790232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197790236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.80w x 1.20d","brand":"Andrea Benvenuti","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46094480212223,"sku":"9780197790236","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a04c9afa-59ee-40e3-b34b-c8c91a58dc3f.jpg?v=1724844778","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nehrus-bandung-andrea-benvenuti-9780197790236","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}