Abstract
Research on the international history of the “Third World” has proliferated since 2005, with the publication of several books adopting a diversity of approaches and methods, focusing on the rhetoric and cultural politics of liberation and de-colonizing movements and providing alternatives to the nation-state framework favored until then. Departing from, but also embracing this scholarship, Jeffrey James Byrne’s Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization and the Third World Order offers a conceptually-refreshing narrative that refocuses attention on the statist, regional, and global politics of liberation movements and South-South diplomacy in the mid-twentieth century. Drawing on unprecedented access to Algerian foreign ministry archives, an impressive corpus of primary materials from archives in half a dozen other countries and wider-ranging interviews, Byrne charts the evolution of the “Third World” project from the first Bandung Conference in 1955 to 1965 while focusing on Algeria’s de-colonizing tradition and relevance to the worldwide network of revolutionary and guerrilla movements and the Third World’s Cold War.
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