The Transformation of the International Order of Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Decolonization, the Cold War, and the Colombo Plan
Redaktion: Akita, Shigeru; Watanabe, Shoichi; Krozewski, Gerold

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the interconnections between the transfer of power and state governance in Asia, the emergence of the Cold War in Asia, and the transfer of hegemony from the UK to the US, by focusing specifically on the historical roles of international economic aid and the autonomous response from Asian nation states in the 1950s and the 1960s.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317694830
• Artikelnr.: 41255174

Autorenporträt

Shigeru Akita is Professor in the Graduate School of Letters at Osaka University, Japan. Gerold Krozewski is a Research Fellow the School of Graduate Studies at University of the Free State, South Africa. Shoichi Watanabe is Professor in the Department of History at Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Colombo Plan, aid relations, and the international order
of Asia, 1950-1965 Part I: The Colombo Plan and economic development 1. The
1950 Commonwealth Foreign Ministers' meeting and the International Aid
Programme for Asia 2. 'The weapons of the weakened': British power,
sterling balances, and the origins of the Colombo Plan 3. The Colombo Plan
and industrialization in India: technical cooperation for the Indian
Institutes of Technology 4. 'A waste of time and money'? The Colombo Plan
in Malaya, Singapore and the Borneo Territories during the 1950s 5. The
development and activities of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far
East (ECAFE), 1947-1965 II: Changing aid relations and the Colombo Plan 6.
The transformation of the Colombo Plan and the sterling area in the late
1950s and early 1960s 7. The Colombo Plan and Japan: focusing on the Tokyo
meeting 8. Britain and the reordering of overseas aid, 1956-64: from
colonial development finance to assistance to sovereign states 9. The
Colombo Plan and British publicity policies towards Southeast Asia,
1950-1965 Part III: The Cold War, aid policies, and the international order
10. US Cold War policy and the Colombo Plan: a continuing search for
regional cooperation in Asia in the 1950s 11. Peace offensive between the
two wars: Khrushchev's policy towards Asia, 1953-1964 12. Development
assistance as a Cold War tool: the United States, international
institutions, and the political economy of Asian development, 1947-1965 13.
The changing international order in Asia and Anglo-Japanese relations: from
the mid-1950s to the early 1960s