Britain, Southeast Asia and the Impact of the Korean War
Britain, Southeast Asia and the Impact of the Korean War

Author: Nicholas Tarling

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 9789971693152

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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.

Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War, 1945-1950
Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War, 1945-1950

Author: Nicholas Tarling

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-10-13

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 9780521632614

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This detailed study throws light on the evolution of British policy in South-east Asia in the turbulent post-war period. Through extensive archival research and insightful analysis of the British mindset and official policy, Tarling demonstrates that South-east Asia was perceived as a region consisting of mutually co-operating new states, rather than a fragmented mass. The book covers the immediate post-war period until the Colombo plan and the outbreak of hostilities in Korea. A companion volume to Tarling's Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Pacific War, it finds parallels between Britain's approach to the threat of Japan and its approach to the threat of communism. It also shows that the British sought to shape US involvement, in part by involving other Commonwealth countries, especially India. This is a major contribution to the diplomatic and political history of South-east Asia.

The British and the Vietnam War
The British and the Vietnam War

Author: Nicholas Tarling

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 2017-01-20

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 9814722235

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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.

Britain and the Neutralisation of Laos
Britain and the Neutralisation of Laos

Author: Nicholas Tarling

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789971695033

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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.

Britain and Regional Cooperation in South-East Asia, 1945-49
Britain and Regional Cooperation in South-East Asia, 1945-49

Author: Tilman Remme

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-04-10

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 131745121X

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This book, first published in 1995, traces the attempt by the British Foreign Office to establish an international regional organisation in South-East Asia which would allow Britain to dominate the region politically, economically and militarily. The author explores the changing emphasis of Britain's regional policies and puts the issues affecting South-East Asia in the post-War period into a wide context. He explores events in the light of the Japanese defeat in the Second World War, the Communist struggle for supremacy of China, the development of Anglo-American relations in Asia and the beginnings of the Cold War.

Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961–1965
Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961–1965

Author: Matthew Jones

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-09-06

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9781139430470

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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 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.

The Korean War in Britain
The Korean War in Britain

Author: Grace Huxford

Publisher: Cultural History of Modern War

Published: 2017-08-21

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 9781526118950

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The Korean War in Britain is the first social history of the Korean War (1950-1953) in Britain. Assessing the impact of the war from 1950 to the early twenty-first century, this original book examines how British people responded to the Korean War and it came to be known as the 'Forgotten War' of the twentieth century.

Defence and Decolonisation in Southeast Asia
Defence and Decolonisation in Southeast Asia

Author: Karl Hack

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780700713035

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This text explains British defence policy by examining the overlapping of colonial, military, economic and Cold War factors in Southeast Asia.