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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.
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