| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 325 pages) : maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-313) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Britain, the United States and the South East Asian setting -- pt. I. Build-up. The Kennedy Administration, Indonesia and the resolution of the West Irian crisis, 1961-1962 -- The Greater Malaysia scheme I : the move towards merger -- The Greater Malaysia scheme II : the Cobbold Commission and the Borneo territories -- Britain, Indonesia and Malaya : from West Irian to the Brunei revolt -- pt. II. Outbreak. The emergence of confrontation : January-May 1963 -- The path to the Manila summit, May-July 1963 -- From the Manila summit to the creation of Malaysia : August-September 1963 -- Avoiding escalation, September-December 1963 -- pt. III. Denouement. The diplomacy of confrontation, Anglo-American relations and the Vietnam War, January-June 1964 -- Escalation, upheaval and reappraisal, July 1964-October 1965 -- Conclusion: The Western presence in South East Asia by the 1960s. |
| Summary |
"In the early 1960s, Britain and the United States were still trying to come to terms with the powerful forces of indigenous nationalism unleashed by the Second World War. The Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation--a crisis which was, as Macmillan remarked to Kennedy, 'as dangerous a situation in South East Asia as we have seen since the war'--was a complex test of Anglo-American relations. As American commitment to Vietnam accelerated under the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, Britain was involving herself in an 'end-of-empire' exercise in statebuilding which had important military and political implications for both nations. Matthew Jones provides a detailed insight into the origins, outbreak and development of this important episode in international history; using a large range of previously unavailable archival sources, he illuminates the formation of the Malaysian federation, Indonesia's violent opposition to the new state and the Western powers' attempts to deal with the resulting conflict."--Publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Southeast Asia -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
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Southeast Asia. |
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International relations. |
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Great Britain. |
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Southeast Asia.
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Southeast Asia -- Foreign relations -- United States.
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United States. |
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Southeast Asia.
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Indonesia -- Foreign relations -- Malaysia.
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Indonesia. |
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Malaysia. |
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Malaysia -- Foreign relations -- Indonesia.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jones, Matthew, 1966- Conflict and confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 [i.e. 2001] 0521801117 (DLC) 2001025561 (OCoLC)46419733 |
| ISBN |
9780511497346 (electronic book) |
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0511497342 (electronic book) |
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0511063326 (electronic book) |
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9780511063329 (electronic book) |
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9781139147033 (electronic book) |
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113914703X (electronic book) |
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0511071787 |
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9780511071782 |
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0521801117 (hardback) |
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9780521801119 (hardback) |
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