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Safe for Decolonization - The Eisenhower Administration, Britain and Singapore (Hardcover)
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Safe for Decolonization - The Eisenhower Administration, Britain and Singapore (Hardcover)
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How America left its indelible footprint on the culture and
politics of Singapore In the first decade after World War II,
Singapore underwent radical political and socioeconomic changes
with the progressive retreat of Great Britain from its Southeast
Asian colonial empire. The United States, under the Eisenhower
administration, sought to fill the vacuum left by the British
retreat and launched into a campaign to shape the emerging
Singapore nation-state in accordance with its Cold War policies.
Based on a wide array of Chinese- and English-language archival
sources from Great Britain, the Netherlands, Singapore, and the
United States, Safe for Decolonization examines in depth the
initiatives--both covert and public--undertaken by the United
States in late-colonial Singapore. Apart from simply analyzing the
effect of American activities on the politics of the island, author
S. R. Joey Long also examines their impact on the relationship
between Great Britain and the United States, and how the
Anglo-American nuclear policy toward China and the establishment of
a regional security institution (the Southeast Asia Treaty
Organization) affected the security and decolonization of a
strategic British base. Long sketches a highly detailed and nuanced
account of the relations between the United States, Great Britain,
and Singapore. He not only describes the often clumsy attempts by
covert American operatives to sway top political leaders,
infiltrate governments, influence labor unions, and shape
elections, but he also shows how Eisenhower's public initiatives
proved to have far-reaching positive results and demonstrates that
the Eisenhower administration's policies toward Singapore, while
not always well advised, nonetheless helped to lay the foundation
for friendly Singapore-U.S. relations after 1960. As the first
multi-archival work on the U.S. intervention in Singapore, Safe for
Decolonization makes an important contribution to the literature on
Southeast Asia-U.S. relations. It will be of interest to
specialists in decolonization, diplomatic history, modern Southeast
Asian history, and the history of the early Cold War.
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