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Conflict and confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965: Britain, the United States, Indonesia and the creation of Malaysia

Jones, Matthew (2002) Conflict and confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965: Britain, the United States, Indonesia and the creation of Malaysia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521801119

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Abstract

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 Southeast 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 state-building which had important military and political implications for both nations. In this 2001 book 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 state and the Western Powers' attempts to deal with the resulting conflict.

Item Type: Book
Official URL: http://www.cambridge.org/
Additional Information: © 2002 The Author
Divisions: International History
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DS Asia
J Political Science > JZ International relations
Date Deposited: 20 Feb 2014 15:26
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 21:37
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/55785

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