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13 maj 2020 · ABSTRACT. This article introduces the pieces collected in this special issue on the legacies of the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia. Linking to the Journal of Contemporary Asia ’s 50th Anniversary volume, it examines the origins and conflicts associated with the Cold War in Asia.
The questions of how and when the Cold War manifested itself in Southeast Asia are here examined through the perceptions of Britain and Australia to regional and global events from 1945 to 1950.
The origins of the Asian Cold War: Malaya 1948. Karl Hack. From the 1970s most scholars have rejected the Cold War orthodoxy that the Malayan Emergency (1948-60) was a result of instructions from Moscow, translated into action by the Malayan Communist Party (MCP). They have instead argued that local factors.
1 lut 2012 · Despite such examples, editor Tsuyoshi Hasegawa may still claim that there was a distinctively East Asian phase in the history of the Cold War—although “East Asia” here seems to cover Southeast Asia, not to mention the Soviet Union and the United States.
The historiography of the Cold War has long been dominated by American motivations and concerns, with Southeast Asian perspectives largely confined to the Indo...
Southeast Asia’s Cold War makes a significant contribution to understanding the Cold War’s long history in Southeast Asia. Its author, Ang Cheng Guan, takes on a mammoth task: writing a capa-cious political and diplomatic history of Southeast Asia beginning in the turbulent period after 1919 until the Cold War’s conclusion in 1991.
Abstract. The study aims to clarify how the Cold War in East Asia was formulated in an inter-national context. The Cold War originally was a result of the tension between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics due to difering politi-cal ideologies and economic systems.
