From Far East to Asia Pacific : : Great Powers and Grand Strategy 1900–1954 / / ed. by Brian P. Farrell, S.R. Joey Long, David Ulbrich.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Benvenuti, Andrea,; Brown, Shannon A.,; Burgess, Charles,; Dean, Peter,; Farrell, Brian P.,; Fumihito, Yamamoto,; Hack, Karl,; Long, S.R. Joey,; Rutkowski, Marek W.,; Simony, Lauriane,; Ulbrich, David J,; Ulbrich, David J.,; Yellen, Jeremy A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Farrell, Brian P.,; Long, S.R. Joey,; Ulbrich, David,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter Studies in Military History , 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXIV, 411 p.)

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.

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 -- Section One -- 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 -- Section Two -- 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 -- Section Three -- 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 -- Coda -- 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