Outposts of empire : Korea, Vietnam and the origins of the Cold War in Asia, 1949-1954 / Steven Hugh Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Steven Hugh, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War.

United States--Foreign relations--Asia.

United States.

Asia--Foreign relations--United States.

Asia.

Canada--Foreign relations--Asia.

Canada.

Asia--Foreign relations--Canada.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Asia.

Great Britain.

Asia--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Asia--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on a wide range of recently declassified documents, Lee outlines the regional and international context of American diplomatic history towards Korea and Vietnam and analyses the relationship between containment, the bipolar international system, and European and American concepts of empire at the beginning of the era of decolonization. He argues that although policy makers in the United Kingdom and Canada adopted a more defensive containment policy towards Communist China than the United States did, they generally supported American attempts to promote pro-Western élites in Korea and Vietnam. This is an important book for anyone interested in American foreign policy, Anglo-American relations, Asia and the international system, and British and Canadian foreign policies.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Tables""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction: The New Empire""; ""2 Informal Empire and Continental East Asia, January�June 1950""; ""3 Containing the Soviet Empire: The North Atlantic Triangle and the Korean War, 1950�1951""; ""4 Defending Southeast Asia: Informal Empire and Containment in Vietnam, 1950�1953""; ""5 The North Atlantic Triangle, China, and the Korean Armistice Negotiations, 1951�1953""; ""6 The Political Economy of Containment and Detente, 1953�1954""; ""7 A Clash of Empires: The Indochina Conference, 1954""; ""8 Conclusion""

""Notes""""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-289) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85400-3

9786612854002

0-7735-6608-2

OCLC:

1087843454