imperial wars waged against Brown and Black people in the Global South don't count,
https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1993476849910125047
This is absurd, and extremely insulting to the people of the Global South, who represent the global majority. Many millions were killed in Western wars in this supposedly "peaceful" period.
Note how Graham Allison moves the goalposts: he first claims the last 80 years were the time of the "longest peace", but he then immediately redefines that as the longest period without *great power* war. Those are two very different claims.
The past 80 years were a time of non-stop war in the Global South. Many millions were killed in US-led wars on Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Grenada, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Somalia, Yugoslavia, Iraq (twice), Libya, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Lebanon, and Palestine; as well as national-liberation wars against European colonial regimes in Africa, such as Algeria, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe, etc.
This isn't to mention US-sponsored mass killings and political genocides in Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Guatemala; and US-sponsored far-right dictatorships that murdered countless people across Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
The first "cold" war was very, very hot indeed for the people of the Global South. Claiming it was a time of "peace", even relative "peace", is outrageous.
What Allison is doing here is regurgitating the asinine idea of "Pax Americana", which is nothing more than propaganda for the US empire. According to this narrative, imperial wars waged against Brown and Black people in the Global South don't count, but the "peace" only ended when white people in the West fought each other in another war in Europe.
I'm so tired of Western scholars who treat the majority of humanity in the Global South as an irrelevant afterthought, and only fixate on the "great powers".
posted by Satish Sharma at
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