The Political and Moral Imperatives of the Bandung Conference of 1955 - The Reactions of the U.S., U.K. and Japan

Informationen zum Autor Kweku Ampiah is an Academic Fellow in the Department of East Asian Studies (and in the White Rose East Asia Centre), School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds. Klappentext Now fifty years on, with significantly more primary references available,Kweku Ampiah's study provides a much-needed in-depth re-evaluation of the conference as a whole, focusing in particular on the external influences and preoccupations impacting on the participants seen through three case studies involving the US,UK and Japan. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Neutralism as a political force in Asia in the mid-1950s; 2 US attitudes towards the conference: From revulsion! to 'benevolent indifference'! and reluctant acceptance; 3 Britain and Bandung: Whitehall's prognosis; 4 Japan's journey back to Asia and the new foreign policy of independence; 5 Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index

Product details

• Authors: Ampiah, Kweku Ampiah
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2007
• EAN: 9781905246403
• ISBN: 978-1-905246-40-3
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Global Oriental
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education