Colonial Wars and the Politics of Third World Nationalism is a book by the Hungarian sociologist Frank Furedi, published by IB Tauris in 1994 (ISBN 185043784X)

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Rethinking decolonisation
2. Some of the arguments
3. Recasting nationalism
4. The Whitehall view

Part 1: The elaboration of the imperialist perspective

1. The qualities of the anti-colonial response
   1. Warning signs
   2. The intellectual-politician
   3. That radical moment
   4. The texture of anti-colonialism
2. The problem of control
   1. The moral crisis of imperialism
   2. The pressure from without
   3. Sensing a loss of control
3. The response to 1948
   1. The trend towards the politics of force
   2. Mass politics experienced as the Cold War
   3. A problem of time interpreted as lack of intelligence
4. Diagnosing disorder: imperial attitudes towards anti-colonial nationalism
   1. Intellectual dispositions
   2. Irrational nationalism
   3. A spiritual vacuum
   4. The assumptions of race
   5. Unworthy opponents

Part 2: Recasting Third World nationalism

1. The conduct of colonial emergencies: the struggle for control
   1. The quest for control
   2. The decision to act
   3. Launching the emergencies
   4. The conduct of the emergencies
   5. Finding a new political balance
2. Reshaping anti-colonial politics
   1. The role of counter-insurgency
   2. Reshshaping the political landscape
   3. The propaganda war
   4. Emergencies as object lessons
3. Capturing the nationalist movement: the big split
   1. Guiding nationalism
   2. The problem of the masses
   3. Leaders and activists
   4. The big test
   5. Forcing the split
4. Conclusions
   1. Recasting anti-colonial nationalism
   2. The changing imperial outlook
   3. Discrediting the unworthy opponents

External links

• Frank Furedi

  Official website

• IB Tauris

  Official website