Bandung 1955 – Non-Alignment and Afro-Asian Solidarity (book review)

Title :- Bandung 1955 – Non-Alignment and Afro-Asian Solidarity

By :- Jamie Mackie

Published :-Editions Didier Millet, Singapore,Kuala Lumpur, Paris  (2005), Paperback (130 pages)

Outline :- The story of the initiating conference of the Non Aligned Movement, initiated by Soekardo in Bandung 1955. Lots of photos of key people and events intermingled with the main narrative plus side stories of the people at the time.

 

“That one week was an unprecedented and unrepeatable moment of unity of purpose among the nations represented there – and probably an unrepeatable one – brought about in a remarkable effort of will to fashion a consensus over the issues which could be agreed upon, while putting aside others at all costs, the inevitable requirement of consensus politics. The moment soon passes and the unity was in tatters by 1965, sadly, since it could not survive the tests of time and changing circumstances”.