Britain Southeast Asia And The Impact Of The Korean War

Author : Nicholas Tarling
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971693152
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain, Southeast Asia and the Impact of the Korean War written by Nicholas Tarling and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to the author's Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Pacific War (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 1998), this book discusses Britain's policy towards Southeast Asia in the period 1950-55, when it was crucially affected by the struggle in Korea. The phases in that struggle - briefly described and placed in a world context - provide a context for discussing Britain's relations with Burma, Thailand, Indonesia, and Indochina. Covering the dispute over West New Guinea and the Chinese Nationalist incursion into Burma, the book gives a full account of the Geneva conference 50 years ago, which reached a settlement in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, and of the creation of the SEATO alliance. The focus of the work is on British policy, and it is largely based on a study of British official records.

Author : Steven Hugh Lee
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773514201
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outposts of Empire written by Steven Hugh Lee and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following World War II the United States, determined to prevent the extension of Soviet and Communist Chinese influence, took the lead in organizing the defence of Western interests in Asia. Steven Lee explores the foreign policy objectives of the United States, Great Britain, and Canada, and examines the role that economic and military aid played in their attempts to establish pro-Western, anti-Communist governments on the periphery of Communist East Asia.

Author : Nicholas Tarling
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9814722235
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British and the Vietnam War written by Nicholas Tarling and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, the British government sought to avoid escalation of the war in Vietnam and to help bring about peace. The thinking that lay behind these endeavours was often insightful and it is hard to argue that the attempt was not worth making, but the British government was able to exert little, if any, influence on a power with which it believed it had, and needed, a special relationship. Drawing on little-used papers in the British archives, Nicholas Tarling describes the making of Britain’s Vietnam policy during a period when any compromise proposed by London was likely to be seen in Washington as suggestive of defeat, and attempts to involve Moscow in the process over-estimated the USSR’s influence on a Hanoi determined on reunification.

Author : Nicholas Tarling
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971695033
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain and the Neutralisation of Laos written by Nicholas Tarling and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on the Geneva conference on Laos of 1961-2. It throws light on Britain's policy in Southeast Asia in what in some sense may be seen as the last of the decades in which its influence was crucial. It covers modern Southeast Asian history, the history of Laos, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and international relations.

Author : Lloyd C. Gardner
Publisher : Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Korean War written by Lloyd C. Gardner and published by Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicholas Tarling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War, 1945-1950 written by Nicholas Tarling and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gregg Huff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107099331
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of World War II in Southeast Asia written by Gregg Huff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive account of the impact of Japanese occupation on Southeast Asian economies and societies during World War II.

Author : Ang Cheng Guan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000440087
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation written by Ang Cheng Guan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of the Manila Pact and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) from its establishment in 1954 until its dissolution in 1977. The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) has received meagre scholarly attention in comparison to other key events and global developments during the duration of the Cold War, due to its perceived failure early in its existence. However, there has been a renewed interest in the academic study of the organization. Some scholars have argued that SEATO was not an outright failure. New literatures have also shed in detail the workings of SEATO, such as operational-level contingency plans and counter-insurgency plans. This book aims to reconstruct a comprehensive life cycle of SEATO using declassified archival documents which were unavailable to scholars studying the organization from the 1950s through the 1980s and provide a nuanced assessment of it. In addition, in recent years, there is also an emerging interest in the possibility of a multilateral military alliance in Asia, for instance the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue morphing into an "Asian NATO". As such, it is therefore crucial to study how previous multilateral alliances in the context of Asia were formed, how they functioned, and subsequently dissolved. A groundbreaking reference on a key element of the United States’ Cold War strategy in Asia, which will be a valuable resource to scholars of twentieth century diplomatic history.

Author : Ang Cheng Guan
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824873467
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southeast Asia’s Cold War written by Ang Cheng Guan and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historiography of the Cold War has long been dominated by American motivations and concerns, with Southeast Asian perspectives largely confined to the Indochina wars and Indonesia under Sukarno. Southeast Asia’s Cold War corrects this situation by examining the international politics of the region from within rather than without. It provides an up-to-date, coherent narrative of the Cold War as it played out in Southeast Asia against a backdrop of superpower rivalry. When viewed through a Southeast Asian lens, the Cold War can be traced back to the interwar years and antagonisms between indigenous communists and their opponents, the colonial governments and their later successors. Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and the Philippines join Vietnam and Indonesia as key regional players with their own agendas, as evidenced by the formation of SEATO and the Bandung conference. The threat of global Communism orchestrated from Moscow, which had such a powerful hold in the West, passed largely unnoticed in Southeast Asia, where ideology took a back seat to regime preservation. China and its evolving attitude toward the region proved far more compelling: the emergence of the communist government there in 1949 helped further the development of communist networks in the Southeast Asian region. Except in Vietnam, the Soviet Union’s role was peripheral: managing relationships with the United States and China was what preoccupied Southeast Asia’s leaders. The impact of the Sino-Soviet split is visible in the decade-long Cambodian conflict and the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979. This succinct volume not only demonstrates the complexity of the region, but for the first time provides a narrative that places decolonization and nation-building alongside the usual geopolitical conflicts. It focuses on local actors and marshals a wide range of literature in support of its argument. Most importantly, it tells us how and why the Cold War in Southeast Asia evolved the way it did and offers a deeper understanding of the Southeast Asia we know today.

Author : Nicholas Tarling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135229414
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southeast Asia and the Great Powers written by Nicholas Tarling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southeast Asia has, on the basis of the nation state, secured both a large measure of interstate peace and cooperation and a degree of autonomy from great powers outside the region. ASEAN both represents that position and promotes it. But it also depends on the attitude of the great powers.