A Study On Franklin Roosevelt And The Decolonization Of India

This dissertation, in the perspective of American foreign policy, mainly investigates the policy change and its motive about the Roosevelt government in the process of decolonization in India the 1930s to 1940s. Roosevelt's wartime diplomacy was closely linked with its non-colonial principle thoughts. Before the outbreak of World War II, Roosevelt dedicated to safeguarding the interests of the colonial countries and peoples, and striving for independence of them. In World War II, this effort reached its peak. Among them, the idea of the decolonization of India Roosevelt put forward during World War II is the best example. This idea, on the one hand manifests the non-colonial principle of Roosevelt's diplomatic ideology, on the other hand is the crystallization of American diplomacy, which has always insisted on the principle of "National Self-determination" and "Open Door". Therefore, studying the Roosevelt's idea of decolonization in India , not only can make us understand and evaluate objectively Roosevelt and his diplomacy, but also objectively understand the nature and mechanism of the world colonialism; at the same time understand the essence and characteristic of the American foreign policy more comprehensively and profoundly. It can help us have a deep dialysis and insight into broad and profound diplomatic thought tradition of America, and provides us a theoretical support and construction significance in overall study of American diplomacy, studies diplomacy, international politics and other academic fields.The whole dissertation is divided into six parts:The first part, mainly through tracing back the decolonization thoughts embodied in the National Self-determination, Monroe Doctrine, Open Door, Wilson's Idealism and other American diplomatic traditions, elaborates systematically the historical origins of Roosevelt's idea of decolonization in India, and discusses the "Non-colonial Principle" in Roosevelt diplomacy and the process he put forward his ideas of decolonization of India. The second part mainly through the analysis of the contradiction and conflict about India problems in Anglo-American, Cripps negotiations in the preliminary talk, introduce the background in which Roosevelt involved the problem of the decolonization of India. The third and fourth part cards systematically the diplomatic practices of Roosevelt in carrying out for realization of the Decolonization of India. Johnson Mission and the Phillips Mission's visit to India show that Roosevelt used diplomatic tactics to achieve his idea of decolonization in India. The fifth part mainly discusses the conservative tendency of Roosevelt on the issue of decolonization in India, and analyzes its reasons. The sixth part mainly analyses and evaluates the Roosevelt's India decolonization policy. This dissertation believes that Roosevelt's idea and policy of decolonization in India is an inheritance and development to the colonialism in the new era. Roosevelt's idea and policy of decolonization in India reflects fully the United States as the new world centre. It has its concept and plan in terms of the post-war world order as well as the changes in the global strategic. The idea and policy of decolonization in India embodies the United States' ambitions to pursuit the world leader status. It is to put an end to the "British century" the Western European country led and established the new world order under the control of the United States, as well as set up the United States' world supremacy status. On the other hand, it also reflects the traditional founding spirit and the principles of the foreign policies with non-colonialism color at the end of World War II. This spirit has certain positive significance to lead the world to the opening up order and integration trend.