Divided Allies

K. Robb Thomas, James Gill David

Description

By directly challenging existing accounts of post-World War II relations among the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, Divided Allies is a significant contribution to transnational and diplomatic history. At its heart, Divided Allies examines why strategic cooperation among these closely allied Western powers in the Asia-Pacific region was limited during the early Cold War. Thomas K. Robb and David James Gill probe the difficulties of security cooperation as the leadership of these four states balanced intramural competition with the need to develop a common strategy against the Soviet Union and the new communist power, the People's Republic of China.Robb and Gill expose contention and disorganization among non-communist allies in the early phase of containment strategy in Asia-Pacific. In particular, the authors note the significance of economic, racial, and cultural elements to planning for regional security and they highlight how these domestic matters resulted in international disorganization. Divided Allies shows that, amidst these contentious relations, the antipodean powers Australia and New Zealand occupied an important role in the region and successfully utilized quadrilateral diplomacy to advance their own national interests, such as the crafting of the 1951 ANZUS collective security treaty.As fractious as were allied relations in the early days of NATO, Robb and Gill demonstrate that the post-World War II Asia-Pacific was as contentious, and that Britain and the commonwealth nations were necessary partners in the development of early global Cold War strategy.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Cold War
• 20th century
• History of Asia
• Asia

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501741869
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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DIVIDED ALLIES

DIVIDEDALLIES

ST RAT EGI C COOPE RAT I ON AGAI NST T HE COMMUNI ST T HRE AT I N T HE ASI A PACI F I C DURI NG T HE E ARLY COL D WAR

Th o m a s K . Ro b b a n d D a v i d J a m e s G i l l

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First published 2019 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Robb, Thomas, author. | Gill, David James,  1982– author. Title: Divided allies : security cooperation in the  AsiaPacific, 1945–55 / Thomas K. Robb and  David James Gill. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2019] |  Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019020279 (print) | LCCN 2019021559  (ebook) | ISBN 9781501741845 (cloth) Subjects: LCSH: United States—Foreign relations—Asia. |  Asia—Foreign relations—United States. | United  States—Foreign relations—Pacific Area. | Pacific Area—  Foreign relations—United States. | United States—  Foreign relations—1945–1953. | Englishspeaking  countries—Foreign relations. | Cold War. | Security,  International—History—20th century. | Asian  cooperation. | Pacific Area cooperation. Classification: LCC DS518.8 .R63 2019 (print) |  LCC DS518.8 (ebook) | DDC 950.4/24—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019020279 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019021559

ISBN 9781501741852 (epub/mobi ebook) ISBN 9781501741869 (pdf ebook)

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Contents

Acknowledgmentsix Abbreviationsxi

Introduction

1. National Interests 2. Crisis and Cooperation 3. A Negotiated Alliance 4. Selective Membership 5. An Unwelcome Ally 6. Divided Action 7. The Costs of Compromise  Conclusion

Notes183 Bibliography249 Index267

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Acknowledgments

Portions of the text have appeared in the fol lowing article: Thomas K. Robb and David James Gill, “The ANZUS Treaty during the Cold War: A Reinterpretation of U.S. Diplomacy in the Southwest Pacific,”JCold War Studiesournal of 17.4 (Fall 2015): 109–57, © 2015 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reprinted by permission of the MIT Press. We are thankful to MIT Press for allowing us to reproduce elements of our research in this book.

WearegratefultoeveryonewhohelpedusproduceDivided Allies. We thank Nicholas Clayton for his research assistance and the numerous archivists who have helped us locate material for this book. We benefited from interactions with knowledgeable and supportive staff in person and online at the Australian National Archive, Australian National Library, Birmingham University, British National Archives, Cambridge Univer sity, Eisenhower Presidential Library, Oxford University, U.S. National Archives II, New Zealand National Archives, Princeton University, Roos evelt Presidential Library, and Truman Presidential Library. Without such dedicated staff, the process of writing history would be significantly more challenging. WearegratefultoJamesCurran,CharlesGiovanniVanzanCoutinho, Michael Gill, WenQing Ngoei, Paul McGarr, Luke Nichter, Bevan Sewell, and two anonymous reviewers for advice and feedback on earlier drafts of the manuscript. Their suggestions made the book considerably better. We would also like to thank Christopher and Alison Curran for their hospitality in Australia. Special thanks to Cornell University Press. Meagan Dermody, CarmenAdriana Torrado Gonzalez, Ange RomeoHall, and Marie Flaherty Joneshave all been very helpful during the publication process. We are partic ularly grateful to Michael McGandy for his advice and support in successfully guiding the book from proposal to publication. Our friends and colleagues in Cambridge, London, Nottingham, and Oxford deserve considerable thanks

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