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Suzerainty or Empire: U.S. Military Intervention in the Indian Ocean, 1963-1970
Monday, 7 October, 2013 - 15:00
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This paper consists of two parts: first, a historical summary of a broader project being pursued; second, a specific thread of involving the development of the Indian Ocean Task Force (IOTF) during the early 1960s by the US State and Defence Departments. While specific arguments will be made during the presentation, a general intention of this paper is to assert the role of US foreign and military policies in compromising the Third World “project” in the decade following the 1955 AsianAfrican Conference in Bandung, Indonesia. Understanding this history—and the role AfroAsian leaders had in enabling this longterm American intervention—provides a critical means addressing the role of American “empire” in the Indian Ocean region, in addition to complicating more simplistic histories of the Third World/Global South that largely rest on a refurbished colonial Manichaeism.