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Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961–1965
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by Matthew Jones

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Cambridge University Press CUP , pp. 348 . Hardback. New.
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  • Title Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961–1965
  • Author Matthew Jones
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 348
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press CUP , Cambridge, U.K.
  • Date pp. 348
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6401827
  • ISBN 9780521801119 / 0521801117
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
  • Reading level 1620
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Foreign relations -, Southeast Asia - Foreign relations - United
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001025561
  • Dewey Decimal Code 327.095

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 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. 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.

First line

Improving the state of relations with Jakarta occupied an important place in the foreign policy agenda of the Kennedy Administration.