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The Cold War and National Assertion in Southeast Asia: Britain, the United States and Burma, 1948-1962

The Cold War and National Assertion in Southeast Asia: Britain, the United States and Burma, 1948-1962

Foley, Matthew

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Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Gifts & Stationery GeneralInternational RelationsSoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 0415627494
ISBN13: 9780415627498
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 29 2012
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book charts British and American approaches to Burma between the country's independence from the United Kingdom in 1948 and the military coup that ended civilian government in 1962. It analyses the fundamental drivers of Anglo-American policy-making during this crucial period - assumptions, expectations and apprehensions that would, eventually, lead America into the disaster of Vietnam. The book suggests the key to understanding British and American approaches to Southeast Asia is to see them in terms of a search for order and stability in an increasingly chaotic and dangerous world. Such order had previously been provided by the colonial regimes of the European powers. With those regimes gone or going, British and American planners faced a region beset with new uncertainties, led by a set of nationalist politicians driven by very different, and often competing, goals and aspirations.

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