The Great Powers In East Asia: 1953-1960

by Warren I. Cohen, Akira Iriye

Overview

The Great Powers of East Asia: 1953-1960 are written by some of the world's leading scholars. They contain new information, fresh insights, and useful analyses. The first series of essays focuses on the evolution of American policy. American historians examine the workings of the the Department of State and the Pentagon, and an American and a Chinese analyze the foreign economic policy of the Eisenhower administration in East Asia. The second series of essays is Japan-centered. Together these essays constitute an important contribution to the writing of international history. The contributors reveal the levels of understanding the major powers has of each other and of the smaller nations of the region, informed by different national experiences. The threads they weave together create a far richer tapestry than a national or binational approach could ever produce.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231071741
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	07/06/1990
Series:	The U.S. and Pacific Asia: Studies in Social, Economic and Political Interaction
Pages:	331
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.35(h) x 1.19(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Warren I. Cohen is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Revolutionary Challenge to Early U.S. Cold Was Policy in Asia
A House Divided: The United States, the Department of State, and China
The Best Defense is a Good Offense: Evolution of American Strategy in East Asia
Eisenhower and Sino-American Confrontation
Eisenhower's Foreign Economic Policy with Respect to Asia
The Eisenhower Administration and Changes in Western Embargo Policy Against China
Search for a Modus Vivendi: Anglo-American Relations and China Policy
Japan and the Soviet Role in East Asia
From San Francisco to Suez and Beyond: Anglo-Japanese Relations
Alliance in Crisis: The Lucky Dragon Incident and Japanese-American Relations
U.S. China Policy in the Eisenhower Era: A Soviet View
The Evolution of the People's Republic of China's Policy toward the Offshore Islands
British Policy in Southeast Asia: The Eisenhower Era
The American Search for Stability in Southeast Asia: TheSEATO Structure of Containment
Breakthrough to the East: Soviet Asain Policy in the 1950s
Index

Editorial Reviews

This book not only provides fresh, superb analyses of Eisenhower's foreign policies in the Far East, but it gives us revealing dialogues between, of course, Eisenhower 'revisionists' and non-revisionists, and especially, between distinguished British, Soviet, Japanese, United States, and, of special note, Chinese experts on the foreign policies of the 1950s.

Walter LaFeber

In September 1987, a conference (sponsored by the Committee on American-East Asian Relations) brought together Chinese, Soviet, American, British, and Japanese scholars to discuss the international relations of East Asia during the post-war era. Their essays constitute a history of the period that takes into account the different cultural and national experiences of all these countries. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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