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Book Launch: The United Nations Trusteeship System – Legacies, Continuities, and Change

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Countries like Cameroon, Papua New Guinea, Somalia, Rwanda and Burundi share a past as former Trust Territories in the United Nations Trusteeship System after World War II. Their political and socio-economic histories and present-day continuities of conflict are deeply intertwined with the periods of colonial rule and subsequent UN supervision as part of a global wave of decolonization in the mid-20th Century. Yet, this process was contested and unfolded in divergent ways in various contexts, which raises the question as to whether and how colonial and imperial forms of ordering have been overcome in the international system.

This event introduces the newly appearing volume “The United Nations Trusteeship System - Legacies, Continuities, and Change” edited by Jan Lüdert, Maria Ketzmerick and Julius Heise (Routledge Global Institutions Series). The speakers will offer valuable insights and reflection on the motivation, arguments and contributions of this volume to debates on international rule, the United Nations and the UN Trusteeship System in particular. The discussion is organized as part of the workshop “The Emergence of International Rule in the Era of Decolonisation” held by the subproject B05 “Securitization and De-Securitization of Trusteeship Administrations in Political Transition Processes” of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre “Dynamics of Security”, led by Thorsten Bonacker.