ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the distinction between South–South cooperation – dating back to the 1950s and representing solidarity against imperialism – and forms of ‘triangular cooperation’ and ‘triangular collaboration’ that have been actively promoted by Northern actors since the 1990s under neoliberalism. It focuses on the history and aims of postcolonial theories, both with regard to its position within Northern academia, and as a theoretical approach that is simultaneously based upon and critiques the constitution of the world into ‘the West’ and ‘the rest’. The book traces the range of state-based attempts to promote solidarity based on mutuality, complementary and common colonial histories that manifested in the launch of the Non-Aligned Movement at Bandung in 1955 and the Tricontinental in 1966.
