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The Transformation of the International Order of Asia - Decolonization, the Cold War, and the Colombo Plan (Hardcover)
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The Transformation of the International Order of Asia - Decolonization, the Cold War, and the Colombo Plan (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
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In Asia the 1950s were dominated by political decolonization and
the emergence of the Cold War system, and newly independent
countries were able to utilize the transformed balance of power for
their own economic development through economic and strategic aid
programmes. This book examines the interconnections between the
transfer of power and state governance in Asia, the emergence of
the Cold War, and the transfer of hegemony from the UK to the US,
by focusing specifically on the historical roles of international
economic aid and the autonomous response from Asian nation states
in the immediate post-war context. The Transformation of the
International Order of Asia offers closely interwoven perspectives
on international economic and political relations from the 1950s to
the 1960s, with specific focus on the Colombo Plan and related aid
policies of the time. It shows how the plan served different
purposes: Britain's aim to reduce India's wartime sterling balances
in London; the quest for India's economic independence under
Jawaharlal Nehru; Japan's regional economic assertion and its
endeavour to improve its international status; Britain's publicity
policy during the reorganization of British aid policies at a time
of economic crisis; and more broadly, the West's desire to counter
Soviet influence in Asia. In doing so, the chapters explore how
international economic aid relations became reorganized in relation
to the independent development of states in Asia during the period,
and crucially, the role this transformation played in the emergence
of a new international order in Asia. Drawing on a wide range of
international contemporary and archival source materials, this book
will be welcomed by students and scholars interested in Asian,
international, and economic history, politics and development
studies.
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