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In the early 1960s, Britain and the United States were still trying e
to terms with the powerful forces of indigenous nationalism unleashed
by the Second World War. The Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation – a
crisis which was, as Macmillan remarked to Kennedy, ‘as dangerous
a situation in South East Asia as we have seen since the war’– was a
complex test of Anglo-American relations. As mitment to
Vietnam accelerated under the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations,
Britain was involving herself in an ‘end-of-empire’ exercise in state-
building which had important military and political implications for
both nations. Matthew Jones provides a detailed insight into the origins,
outbreak and development of this important episode in international
history; using a large range of previously unavailable archival sources,
he illuminates the formation of the Malaysian federation, Indonesia’s
violent opposition to the new state and the Western powers’ attempts to
deal with the resulting conflict.
MATTHEW JONES isa Lecturer in International History at Royal
Holloway College, University of London. His previous publications
include Britain, the United States and the Mediterranean War, 1942–44
(1996).
Conflict and Confrontation in
South East Asia, 1961–1965
Britain, the United States and
the Creation of Malaysia
Matthew Jones
Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo
Cambridge University Press
The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge , United Kingdom
Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York
Information on this title: 0521801119
© Matthew Jones 2002
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without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.
First published in print format 2001
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