Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965: Britain, the United States, Indonesia and the Creation of Malaysia

Matthew Jones0521801117, 9780521801119, 9780511063329

This fascinating study looks at the origins, outbreak and course of the Indonesian-Malaysian confrontation of 1963-1966, within the context of British and American policies in South East Asia during the 1960s as a whole. Matthew Jones uses new archival sources to throw fresh light on such subjects as British Colonial policy and the creation of Malaysia, Anglo-American tensions over the confrontation itself, and the diplomacy of that important, but often neglected, international dispute.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Half-title……Page 3
Title……Page 5
Copyright……Page 6
Dedication……Page 7
Contents……Page 9
Maps……Page 11
Preface and acknowledgements……Page 13
ABBREVIATIONS……Page 18
Introduction: Britain, the United States and the South East Asian setting……Page 25
Part I Build-up……Page 53
1 The Kennedy Administration, Indonesia and the resolution of the West Irian crisis, 1961–1962……Page 55
2 The Greater Malaysia scheme I: the move towards merger……Page 85
3 The Greater Malaysia scheme II: the Cobbold Commission and the Borneo territories……Page 103
4 Britain, Indonesia and Malaya: from West Irian to the Brunei revolt……Page 122
Part II Outbreak……Page 147
5 The emergence of confrontation: January–May 1963……Page 149
6 The path to the Manila summit, May–July 1963……Page 174
7 From the Manila summit to the creation of Malaysia: August–September 1963……Page 196
8 Avoiding escalation, September–December 1963……Page 229
Part III Denouement……Page 257
9 The diplomacy of confrontation, Anglo-American relations and the Vietnam War, January–June 1964……Page 259
10 Escalation, upheaval and reappraisal, July 1964–October 1965……Page 292
Conclusion: The Western presence in South East Asia by the 1960s……Page 319
UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTS……Page 329
PUBLISHED DOCUMENTS……Page 330
BOOKS……Page 332
ARTICLES……Page 336
OTHER WORK……Page 337
Index……Page 338