Asian Studies Invited Speaker Series and the History Assiniboia Lecture present:
States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization
With Lydia Walker, Ohio State University
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
2:30 p.m., Reception to follow
409 Tier building
Join us for a book talk from Dr. Lydia Walker, Provost Scholar Assistant Professor and Seth Andre Myers Chair in Global Military History at Ohio State University.
After the Second World War, national self-determination became a recognized international norm, yet it only extended to former colonies. Groups within postcolonial states that made alternative sovereign claims were disregarded or actively suppressed. Foregrounding little-known regions in South Asia and Southern Africa and the networks that connected them to global politics, States-in-Waiting illuminates the un-endings of decolonization—the unfinished and improvised ways that the state-centric international system replaced empire, which left certain claims of sovereignty perpetually awaiting recognition.
States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization (Cambridge University Press, 2024) is available as an open access download.