Cold War Asia - A Visual History of Global Diplomacy

"This innovative collection uses visual sources to explore the role of Asia in Cold War global diplomacy. Scholars across disciplines demonstrate how leaders in the region exploited the symbolic value of diplomacy to emphasise their agency in relationships with Great Powers, shedding new light on how culture shapes international relations"--

List of contents

List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: visual sources and diplomacy Matthew Phillips and Naoko Shimazu; 1. Reframing non-alignment: Tito, Sukarno and the 1961 Belgrade conference Dejan Djoki¿; 2. In the image of Imelda: the surrogate diplomacy of the First Lady Patrick Flores; 3. Meeting of the kings: the dream factory and cold war diplomacy Jirayudh Sinthuphan; 4. Conquering the world: King Bhumibol's 1960 visit to Burma on film Matthew Phillips; 5. Between style and substance: West German president Heinrich Lübke in Indonesia in 1963 Christian Goeschel; 6. A photograph with two stories: Lisa Larsen and the bandung conference of 1955 Naoko Shimazu; 7. Waxwork wars: exhibiting the Japanese surrender over half a century in Singapore Paul Rae; 8. Cosmic envoy: interkosmos and the poetics of late socialist spaceflight Gerard Sasges; 9. A diplomatic image and its afterlife: Bangkok 1967 and ASEAN's creation myth Deepak Nair; 10. Picturing power: a photographer's view Tom White; Index.

About the author

Matthew Phillips is a diplomat based in Bangkok.Naoko Shimazu is a global historian of Asia and Professor at Tokyo College, International Institute for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo.

Summary

This innovative collection uses visual sources to explore the role of Asia in Cold War global diplomacy. Scholars across disciplines demonstrate how leaders in the region exploited the symbolic value of diplomacy to emphasise their agency in relationships with Great Powers, shedding new light on how culture shapes international relations.

Foreword

This innovative, interdisciplinary collection uses visual sources to explore the role of Asia in Cold War global diplomacy.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew (Foreign Phillips
• Assisted by: Matthew Phillips (Editor), Matthew (Foreign Phillips (Editor), Phillips Matthew (Editor), Naoko Shimazu (Editor), Naoko (University of Tokyo) Shimazu (Editor), Shimazu Naoko (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2024
• EAN: 9781009379618
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0937961-8
• No. of pages: 249
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; World, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Asia, HISTORY / Asia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, ART / Performance, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Diplomacy, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Asian History, Performance Art, The Cold War, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), c 1945 to c 1990 (the Cold War period), Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War