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

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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

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Published/Copyright: 2022

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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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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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List of Maps
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List of Figures
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List of Tables
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Notes on Contributors and Acknowledgements
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Sources: List of Abbreviations used in Citations
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From Far East to Asia Pacific: Great Powers and Grand Strategy, 1900–1954
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Brian P. Farrell

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Section One
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Follow the Money: E for Economics and Grand Strategy
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Brian P. Farrell

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Grand Strategy by Other Means: US Foreign Policy, Public-Private Collaboration, and “Employing all Proper Methods in China,” 1895–1914
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Shannon A. Brown

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Follow the Money: The Manchurian Incident, Economic Recovery and Japan’s Policy Change in the 1930s
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Yamamoto Fumihito

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Military Power in Grand Strategy, 1900–1954
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David J. Ulbrich

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Facing the Rising Sun in the Pacific: Grand Strategy, the US Marine Corps and Amphibious Capabilities, 1900–1941
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David J Ulbrich

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Twilight in China: Great Powers and the Defence of Shanghai, 1925–1937
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Brian P. Farrell

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“To Treat China as a Great Power”: Great Britain, Southeast Asia, and American Grand Strategy for the Defeat of Japan, 1941–1945
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Charles Burgess

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Grand Strategy and Its Layers: Britain and Southeast Asia, 1946–1954
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Karl Hack

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Diplomacy, (Hot and Cold) War, and Grand Strategy, 1940–1954
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S.R. Joey Long

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What Grand Strategy? Japan, 1931–1945
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Jeremy A. Yellen

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Frustrating the Americans and Befriending the Communists: Nehru’s Policy in the Early Asian Cold War, 1947–1954
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Andrea Benvenuti

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The British Council and Its Rivals: Great Powers’ Cultural Competition in Post-Independence Burma, 1948–1955
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Lauriane Simony

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Adversaries, Allies and the Shaping of US Grand Strategy: The Eisenhower Administration and the 1954 Geneva Conference
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S.R. Joey Long

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Expanding the Area of Peace: India and the Geneva Conference of 1954
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On Two Doorsteps: Middle Powers and Grand Strategy
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Managing Great Power Allies: Australian Grand Strategy in Asia, 1900–1954
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Reflections: Making Sense of and Shaping Order in the Asia-Pacific 1900–1954
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Index
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great powers; geopolitics; Asia-Pacific; military history

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From Far East to Asia Pacific

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About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Maps

List of Figures

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors and Acknowledgements

Sources: List of Abbreviations used in Citations

Glossary: Names and Spelling

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

Follow the Money: E for Economics and Grand Strategy

Grand Strategy by Other Means: US Foreign Policy, Public-Private Collaboration, and “Employing all Proper Methods in China,” 1895–1914

Follow the Money: The Manchurian Incident, Economic Recovery and Japan’s Policy Change in the 1930s

Military Power in Grand Strategy, 1900–1954

Facing the Rising Sun in the Pacific: Grand Strategy, the US Marine Corps and Amphibious Capabilities, 1900–1941

Twilight in China: Great Powers and the Defence of Shanghai, 1925–1937

“To Treat China as a Great Power”: Great Britain, Southeast Asia, and American Grand Strategy for the Defeat of Japan, 1941–1945

Grand Strategy and Its Layers: Britain and Southeast Asia, 1946–1954

Diplomacy, (Hot and Cold) War, and Grand Strategy, 1940–1954

What Grand Strategy? Japan, 1931–1945

Frustrating the Americans and Befriending the Communists: Nehru’s Policy in the Early Asian Cold War, 1947–1954

The British Council and Its Rivals: Great Powers’ Cultural Competition in Post-Independence Burma, 1948–1955

Adversaries, Allies and the Shaping of US Grand Strategy: The Eisenhower Administration and the 1954 Geneva Conference

Expanding the Area of Peace: India and the Geneva Conference of 1954

On Two Doorsteps: Middle Powers and Grand Strategy

Managing Great Power Allies: Australian Grand Strategy in Asia, 1900–1954

Reflections: Making Sense of and Shaping Order in the Asia-Pacific 1900–1954

Index

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