Book contents
- The Colombo Plan
- Global and International History
- The Colombo Plan
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 A ‘Miniature United Nations’ at Colombo, 1950
- 2 Experimental Regionalism
- 3 Flexibility, with Limits
- 4 States, Sovereignty and Story
- 5 So Much Useful Work at So Small a Cost
- 6 Projecting the Plan
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Projecting the Plan
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 October 2025
Book contents
- The Colombo Plan
- Global and International History
- The Colombo Plan
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 A ‘Miniature United Nations’ at Colombo, 1950
- 2 Experimental Regionalism
- 3 Flexibility, with Limits
- 4 States, Sovereignty and Story
- 5 So Much Useful Work at So Small a Cost
- 6 Projecting the Plan
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Without overstating the case for direct lineage between current-day international organizations and the Colombo Plan, its Consultative Committee practices of generous time for discussion, decision-making by consensus and diverting the most controversial content to other forums, find echoes in the ways of ASEAN. In its recurring discussions about region, acknowledgment of Cold War dynamics, and the potential for regional action through north-south cooperation, the Colombo Plan might also be regarded as a staging post towards the more recent embrace of the ‘Indo-Pacific’. In the history of development, the Colombo Plan, while constrained in its operation by legacies of colonialism and Cold War alignments, also enjoyed a certain license during the long 1950s before standardized aid measurement and the professionalization of foreign aid bureaucracies caught up with it. It enabled member countries to tell stories about themselves for regional readers and viewers.
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- The Colombo PlanDevelopment Internationalism in Cold War Asia, pp. 220 - 260Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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