Kahin Southeast Asia

A Testament
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-1-134-42312-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

Reihe: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship

Southeast Asia: A Testament covers the tragic history of post war Indonesia from its successful struggle against the Dutch to Suharto's bloody overthrow of Sukarno in 1965. It also gives a personal account of the US involvement in Indochina, where George Kahin was an early critic of the Vietnam war and struggled to open the eyes of policy makers to the historical, political and military realities of the Vietnamese situation. Kahin also witnessed the reluctant involvement of Cambodia in the conflict, and the 1970 coup against Prince Sihanouk which paved the way for the Communist accession to power.
This book will be of interest to students of American diplomatic and foreign policy, Asian studies, and international relations. It is an engagingly written, often poignant personal account of George Kahin's experiences in Southeast Asia, ad as such will also appeal to the general reader.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kahin, George McT.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments Foreword by Walter LaFeber Introduction 1. The Indonesian Revolution 2. Communism and the Republic 3. The Dutch Attack on Yogyakarta 4. The Dutch transfer Sovereignty 5. McCarthy, Lattimore and Cochran 6. Return to Indonesia 7. Struggle over Malaysia 8. Cornell and the Coup 9. Opposition to the Vietnam War 10. Casualties and Pacification, 1966/67 11. Possibilities for Peace: 1971 12. North Vietnam, 1972 13. Cambodian Neutrality & the United States 14. Cambodia & the Vitenam War 15. Coup against Sihanouk 16. Invasion of Cambodia

Über Autor(innen)

George Kahin was Professor Emeritus of International Politics at Cornell University. He was a leading scholar of Southeast Asian history and of US foreign policy in the postwar period.