The Bandung conference “was a result of their frustration with the political logjam surrounding new membership in the United Nations. By 1953/54 no new members had been inducted into the organization since the acceptance of Indonesia in January 1950. The 1955 meeting in Bandung was attended by delegations from 29, primarily new, nation-states or nationalist movements in Asia and Africa” (Berger 2004, 11–12). The political logjam at the UN had resulted mainly from the Cold War rivalry of the superpowers.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1293