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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783116403321

Autore

Jones Matthew <1966->

Titolo

Conflict and confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965 : Britain, the United States, and the creation of Malaysia / / Matthew Jones [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-12259-7

1-280-16046-2

0-511-11932-1

1-139-14703-X

0-511-06332-6

0-511-05699-0

0-511-32821-4

0-511-49734-2

0-511-07178-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 325 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

327/.0959/09046

Soggetti

Southeast Asia Foreign relations Great Britain

Great Britain Foreign relations Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia Foreign relations United States

United States Foreign relations Southeast Asia

Indonesia Foreign relations Malaysia

Malaysia Foreign relations Indonesia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-313) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Britain, the United States and the South East Asian setting -- ; pt. 1. Build-up. ; 1. The Kennedy Administration, Indonesia and the resolution of the West Irian crisis, 1961-1962. ; 2. The Greater Malaysia scheme I: the move towards merger. ; 3. The Greater Malaysia scheme II: the Cobbold Commission and the Borneo territories. ; 4. Britain, Indonesia and Malaya: from West Irian to the Brunei revolt -- ; pt. 2. Outbreak. ; 5. The emergence of confrontation: January-May 1963. ; 6. The path to the Manila summit, May-July 1963. ; 7. From the Manila



summit to the creation of Malaysia: August-September 1963. ; 8. Avoiding escalation, September-December 1963 -- ; pt. 3. Denouement.

Sommario/riassunto

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.