Western Military Power and the Reordering of Modern Asia, 1900-1979

Brian P. Farrell is Professor of Military History at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He is the author of The Defence and Fall of Singapore 1940-1942 (2005) and The Basis and Making of British Grand Strategy 1940-1943 (1998). He is also the lead editor of the two-volume Empire in Asia: A New Global History (Bloomsbury, 2016). Andrea Benvenuti is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of several books, including Cold War and Decolonisation: Australia's Policy Towards Britain's End of Empire in Southeast Asia (2017). Shannon Brown is Senior Lecturer in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, USA. Charles Burgess is a PhD candidate in History at the National University of Singapore, Singapore, where his broad research interests include military, diplomatic, and international history, focusing on grand strategy and coalition warfare. Karl Hack is Professor of History and Head of the School of History, Religious Studies, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of several books, including War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore (2012). SR Joey Long is Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He is the author of Safe for Decolonization: The Eisenhower Administration, Britain, and Singapore (2011). Marek W. Rutkowski is Lecturer in Global Studies at Monash University, Malaysia. His research focuses on the intersection of the Global Cold War and decolonization in Asia with an emphasis on the Vietnam War, non-alignment, development and the role played by the Soviet Bloc. Fumihito Yamamoto is an independent scholar and book translator (English to Japanese). Educated in Dokkyo University in Saitama, Japan and at the National University of Singapore, he is working on international relations in the first half of the twentieth century, especially Anglo-Japanese relations. Translation works include Niall Ferguson’s Empire and Kishore Mahbubani’s The Great Convergence.

Volume One, 1900-1945
List of Illustrations
Series Introduction: Great Powers and Reordering the Asia Pacific
Volume Introduction
Part I - Collapse of the Old Order, 1900-1918
1. Wars and Revolutions, 1900-1912
2. New Trajectories, 1912-1918
Part II - Defining a New Order, 1919-1922
3. False Start: Paris 1919
4. Rebooting: Empires in Asia 1919-1921
5. The Concert of Washington, 1921-22
Part III - From Regional Order to Global War, 1922-1945
6. Global Challenges: Communism, Nationalism and the Washington System, 1922-1937
7. The Japanese Challenge and the Washington System, 1922-1937
8. Confrontations: From Shanghai to Pearl Harbor, 1937-1941
9. Total War: Defeating the Japanese Challenge, 1941-1945
Conclusion: The Crumbling of Imperial Order in the Asia Pacific, 1900-1945
Bibliography
Index
Volume Two, 1945-1979
List of Illustrations
Volume Introduction
Part I - False Dawn, 1942-1954
1. Defining Global Visions, 1942-1945
2. Unraveling Visions, 1945-1948
3. Conflicts: Northeast Asia, 1948-1954
4. Confrontations: Southeast Asia, 1948-1954
Part II - Rules of Engagement, 1954-1979
5. Competing Visions: Geneva and Bandung, 1954-1955
6. Grand Designs, 1954-1962
7. Conflicts: Southeast Asia, 1962-1969
8. Confrontations: Northeast Asia, 1962-1969
9. Rebooting and Realignments, 1969-1973
10. Endgame? Western Withdrawals and Responses, 1973-1979
Epilogue: Great Powers and Global Order in the ‘New’ Asia Pacific
Bibliography
Index