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A sequel to the author's Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Pacific War (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 1998), this book discusses Britain's policy towards Southeast Asia in the period 1950-55, when it was crucially affected by the struggle in Korea. The phases in that struggle - briefly described and placed in a world context - provide a context for discussing Britain's relations with Burma, Thailand, Indonesia, and Indochina. Covering the dispute over West New Guinea and the Chinese Nationalist incursion into Burma, the book gives a full account of the Geneva conference 50 years ago, which reached a settlement in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, and of the creation of the SEATO alliance. The focus of the work is on British policy, and it is largely based on a study of British official records.

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... This ground-breaking work will be a foundational text... on [the] important decade of the 1950s in Southeast Asia . - REFEREE'S REPORT

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Nicholas Tarling is the author of more than 15 books on Southeast Asian history, including Southeast Asia: A Modern History. He was the editor of the Cambridge History of Southeast Asia and is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Auckland.

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