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Globalising Suez: Commonwealth Diplomacy and the War of Algerian Independence (1955–1957)

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In the case of Algeria, Mélanie Torrent shows how the Commonwealth became actively involved in intermediation from 1955 to 1957 when the future of Algeria as a French possession came to international prominence. The Suez Crisis added complexity to the situation since France and Britain were jointly implicated in the invasion. Anthony Eden sought to keep the Commonwealth at arms’ length, but India and Pakistan took a keen interest in light of their broader concerns as newly independent nations with interests and affinities in South Asia and North Africa. Nehru and Ayub Khan used their Commonwealth membership to exert diplomatic influence and manoeuvred to raise Algeria at Commonwealth meetings. Indian diplomat Krishna Menon took an active role at the UN and in the Commonwealth in an effort to broker a deal on Algeria. Torrent’s case is not that the Commonwealth was especially effective in brokering a deal—internal divisions were themselves a constraint. But she does show that, over Suez and Algeria, new Commonwealth members were asserting themselves on the international stage and making effective use of the levers and networks that the Commonwealth offered.

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hal-04162469 , version 1 (14-07-2023)

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Mélanie Torrent. Globalising Suez: Commonwealth Diplomacy and the War of Algerian Independence (1955–1957). Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century, Springer International Publishing, pp.271-290, 2020, Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, 978-3-030-41788-8. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-41788-8_14⟩. ⟨hal-04162469⟩
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