From Far East to Asia Pacific: Great Powers and Grand Strategy 1900–1954

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022

From Far East to Asia Pacific

Great Powers and Grand Strategy 1900–1954

Edited by: Brian P. Farrell , S.R. Joey Long and David J. Ulbrich

Volume 4 in the series De Gruyter Studies in Military History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110718713

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The years 1900 to 1954 marked the transformation from an exotic, colonized "Far East" to a more autonomous, prominent "Asia Pacific". This anthology examines the grand strategies of great powers as they vied for influence and ultimately hegemony in the region. At the turn of the twentieth century, the main contestants included the venerable British Empire and the aspiring Japan and United States. The unwieldy leviathan of China, the European imperial holdings in Southeast Asia, and the expanses of the western Pacific emerged as battlegrounds in literal and geopolitical terms. Other less powerful nations, such as India, Burma, Australia, and French Indochina, also exercised agency in crafting grand strategies to further their interests and in their interactions with those great powers. Among the many factors affecting all nations invested in the Asia Pacific were such traditional elements as economics, military power, and diplomacy, as well as fluid traits like ideology, culture, and personality. The era saw the decline of British and European influence in the Asia Pacific, the rise and fall of Japanese imperialism, the emergence of American primacy, the ongoing struggle for independence in Southeast Asia, and China’s resurrection as a contender for hegemony. Great powers shifted and so too did their grand strategies.

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Brian P. Farrell and S.R. Joey Long, National University of Singapore; David J. Ulbrich, Norwich University, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Maps Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
Notes on Contributors and Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
Sources: List of Abbreviations used in Citations Publicly Available Download PDF	XXI
Glossary: Names and Spelling Publicly Available Download PDF	XXIII
From Far East to Asia Pacific: Great Powers and Grand Strategy, 1900–1954 Brian P. Farrell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Section One
Follow the Money: E for Economics and Grand Strategy Brian P. Farrell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Grand Strategy by Other Means: US Foreign Policy, Public-Private Collaboration, and “Employing all Proper Methods in China,” 1895–1914 Shannon A. Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Follow the Money: The Manchurian Incident, Economic Recovery and Japan’s Policy Change in the 1930s Yamamoto Fumihito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Section Two
Military Power in Grand Strategy, 1900–1954 David J. Ulbrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Facing the Rising Sun in the Pacific: Grand Strategy, the US Marine Corps and Amphibious Capabilities, 1900–1941 David J Ulbrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Twilight in China: Great Powers and the Defence of Shanghai, 1925–1937 Brian P. Farrell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
“To Treat China as a Great Power”: Great Britain, Southeast Asia, and American Grand Strategy for the Defeat of Japan, 1941–1945 Charles Burgess Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Grand Strategy and Its Layers: Britain and Southeast Asia, 1946–1954 Karl Hack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Section Three
Diplomacy, (Hot and Cold) War, and Grand Strategy, 1940–1954 S.R. Joey Long Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
What Grand Strategy? Japan, 1931–1945 Jeremy A. Yellen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Frustrating the Americans and Befriending the Communists: Nehru’s Policy in the Early Asian Cold War, 1947–1954 Andrea Benvenuti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
The British Council and Its Rivals: Great Powers’ Cultural Competition in Post-Independence Burma, 1948–1955 Lauriane Simony Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Adversaries, Allies and the Shaping of US Grand Strategy: The Eisenhower Administration and the 1954 Geneva Conference S.R. Joey Long Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Expanding the Area of Peace: India and the Geneva Conference of 1954 Marek W. Rutkowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
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On Two Doorsteps: Middle Powers and Grand Strategy Brian P. Farrell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
Managing Great Power Allies: Australian Grand Strategy in Asia, 1900–1954 Peter Dean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Reflections: Making Sense of and Shaping Order in the Asia-Pacific 1900–1954 Brian P. Farrell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Scholars of military/social/cultural/Asian/global history, political sciences
Pages
- Front matter: 24
- Main content: 411
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 22
- Maps: 12
- Tables: 8
Keywords: great powers; geopolitics; Asia-Pacific; military history

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Published: July 18, 2022
ISBN: 9783110718713

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Published: July 18, 2022
ISBN: 9783110717402

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Planned Publication: June 17, 2024
ISBN: 9783111521657