By Michael Yahuda
This moment variation of Michael Yahuda's super profitable textbook introduces scholars to the overseas politics of the Asia Pacific quarter on account that 1945. the hot version is totally up-to-date with modern insurance of the industrial crises and contains new chapters on: the present position of East Asia in global affairs clients post-2000 the strengths and weaknesses folks dominance and the problem of different powers customers for and implications of an East Asian fiscal restoration.
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The war in the Asia-Pacific was won essentially through American naval and air power culminating in the dropping of the two atomic bombs. This left a scramble for power in many parts of Asia involving both civil wars and struggles for independence against the returning colonial powers. Although the Pacific War had provided a strategic rationale for treating the region as a whole, the Western allies came to treat Northeast and Southeast Asia separately As the United States concentrated its forces on the assault on Japan itself, Britain was in effect entrusted with winning the war in Southeast Asia, with initial responsibility for Burma, Thailand, Malaya (including Singapore) and Sumatra.
This book will first provide a historical overview of the region as a whole as it has evolved since 1945. It will be subdivided chronologically so as to facilitate discussion of the possible links between local developments and changes in the balance of power at both regional and global levels. Subsequent chapters will analyze separately the interests Introduction 15 and policies of the two global powers, the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia, as these have taken shape within the region.
For the best account of Sino-Soviet relations at this time that is based on new archival materials and on the accounts of participants, see Sergei The international politics of the Asia-Pacific 30 N. Lewis and Xue Litai, Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993). See also the previous note. 15 Gaddis, ‘Korea in American Politics…’ (op. 289. 94–115. 17 For accounts of the background to the Korean War, in addition to those cited in note 13, see Cummings, The Origins of the Korean War (op.