LEADER 03872oam 2200469 450 001 9910345109403321 005 20170523091618.0 010 $a981-230-743-5 010 $a981-230-798-2 024 7 $a10.1355/9789812307989 035 $a(OCoLC)404707085 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL2QRF 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000041134 100 $a20080505d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCreating "greater Malaysia" $edecolonization and the politics of merger /$fTan Tai Yong 210 1$aSingapore :$cInstitute of Southeast Asian Studies,$d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 224 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 0 $aGale eBooks 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Nov 2015). 311 $a981-230-747-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-204) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface / $rYong, Tan Tai -- $tMap of British Colonies in Southeast Asia (1946) -- $tMap of Malaysia (1963) -- $tIntroduction -- $tCHAPTER ONE: Decolonization and the "Grand Design": Aspects of British Policy in Post-War Southeast Asia -- $tCHAPTER TWO: Merger and Greater Malaysia: Political Attitudes towards Union between Singapore and the Federation -- $tCHAPTER THREE: Setting the Stage: Tunku's Ulster-type Merger and Singapore's White Paper Proposals -- $tCHAPTER FOUR: The Citizenship Issue -- $tCHAPTER FIVE: Financial Arrangements and the Common Market -- $tCHAPTER SIX: The Borneo Territories and Brunei -- $tConclusion -- $tBibliography -- $tChronology of Key Events Leading to the Formation of Malaysia -- $tDramatis Personae -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the Author 330 $aThis book offers an in-depth and detailed analysis of the political processes that led to formation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963. It argues that the Malaysia that came into being following the amalgamation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo was a political creation whose only rationale was that it served a convergence of political and economic expediency for the departing colonial power, the Malayan leadership and the ruling party of self-governing Singapore. "Greater Malaysia" was thus an artificial political entity, the outcome of a concatenation of interests and motives of a number of political actors in London and Southeast Asia from the 1950s to the early 1960s. The book contrasts the complicated negotiations and hard bargaining between Singapore and Malaya on the critical issues of citizenship, control of finances and the development of a common market during the lead-up to merger with the relative ease with which the North Borneo Territories were incorporated in the Federation. The haste and testing conditions in which negotiations were conducted between 1961 and 1963, often with the British facilitating the process as an "honest broker", led to a number of unresolved compromises between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. These compromises, however, did not obviate the possibility of future difficulties, and the seeds of dissension sown by the disagreements between the two governments were to sprout into major crises during Singapore's brief history in the Federation of Malaysia. 606 $aDecolonization$zSoutheast Asia$xHistory 607 $aMalaysia$xPolitics and government 607 $aSingapore$xPolitics and government$y1963-1965 607 $aMalaysia$xForeign relations$zSingapore 607 $aSingapore$xForeign relations$zMalaysia 615 0$aDecolonization$xHistory. 676 $a959.5051 700 $aTan$b Tai Yong$0520845 801 0$bMiFhGG 801 1$bMiFhGG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910345109403321 996 $aCreating "Greater Malaysia"$92786544 997 $aUNINA