ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of what Bandung meant to the emerging Third World during the Cold War, showing that it played an historical role in developing a process of counter-hegemonic activities. These activities developed political, economic and cultural projects that succeeded in ending the Cold War. The Bandung Conference played a constructive role in mobilizing the counter-hegemonic forces of what was to become known as the Third World against the power bloc, which emerged post-World War II. An increasingly globalized international political economy was accompanied, especially in the Third World, by the emergence of ethnic, religious, and other identity communities that challenged the state's legitimacy and power. The campaign against neo-colonialism developed in the UN General Assembly emerging from the Bandung tradition was supported by a parallel trend in the international civil society during the 1960s and 1970s.
