Comparative perspectives on Post-Colonialism: Southeastern Asia and Central Eastern Europe

Abstract

The history of each country, by Kondratas et al. (2015, 9), is unique and interesting due to its main narratives, themes, interpretations, and points of emphasis, changing somewhat over time and geopolitical and sociocultural conditions in historical analysis. Post-colonialism in Southeastern Asia and Central Eastern Europe, written in the history of the world, has never been interrogated and analogized in a systematic way. To achieve the study, the researcher applied Wallerstein’s World System Analysis to demonstrate two versions in the paper: (1) the existence of colonialism and the colonizers, interrogated through diverse phenomena, including regimes, length of colonial domination, partition, violence, proselytization, settlements and/or migration; and (2) the impacts of colonialism, illustrated through social, economic and political factors. Consequently, the legacy of colonialism in Southeastern Asian countries and Central Eastern European, by Kelertas (2006, 12), has activated deep changes, or they have been tarried almost untouched because of disproportionate weight in the ex-colonized countries.