Abstract
Analysis of the rhetoric of United States (US) leaders, government officials and diplomats highlights the critical role the US played in dismantling normal UN decolonisation processes for the former Non-Self-Governing Territory of Netherlands New Guinea (NNG) and supports the argument that the Indonesian settler colonial endeavour flourished with international support. While the US withdrew support from the Netherlands in favour of Indonesia (allegedly to facilitate that country’s ‘completion of independence’), this narrative reflects a neo-colonial agenda of furthering US strategic and economic interests in South East Asia. Alternative discourses and political agencies of both the NSGT, and its decolonising power, the Netherlands, are silenced in this narrative. Legal self-determination processes are deemed irrelevant, while agendas of ‘development’ and ‘world peace’ are seen as paramount.
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