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Decolonization, Process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country.
I like to call this decolonization process the revolution of archives.
Arguing that Bantustans matched the decolonization process then taking place in tropical Africa, the government devolved powers onto those administrations and eventually encouraged them to become "independent".
(The approval of the UN Security Council was technically necessary for the cessation of the trusteeship, but politically motivated efforts by the Soviet Union to obstruct the decolonization process necessitated a unilateral U.S. termination of the trusteeship, which was approved by a majority vote of the Trusteeship Council of the UN).
The second was the creation of international political leverage to hasten the decolonization process which remained" (p. 153).
This was the case of the decolonization process and for the separation of East Timor (1999), Bougainville (2001), or South Sudan (2001).
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There is a process of decolonization.
The process of decolonization in south-central Africa and the High Commission territories was generally peaceful.
The Algerian crisis sped the process of decolonization in the rest of the empire.
The process of "decolonization" was unfolding much faster than anyone had expected, and new nations were pouring into the United Nations.
The bases are the first permanent French military installations to be built outside of French territory since the process of decolonization began more than half a century ago.
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