The Cold War in East Asia, 1945-1991

by Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi

• ISBN13: 9780804773317
• ISBN10: 0804773319
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-02
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

The Cold War in East Asiastudies Asia as a second front in the Cold War, examining how the six powers--the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Japan, and North and South Korea--interacted one another and forged the conditions that were distinct from the Cold War in Europe. The contributors are among the foremost historians of the new Cold War history, and this book draws on a wide array of newly available archival information in many languages, with particular strength in the use of Russian and Chinese archival material. The Cold War in East Asiashows how as a second front the Cold War in East Asia influenced the shape of the Cold War's first front--the East-West confrontation centering in Europe--and third front in the developing world. Each chapter, while focused on particular countries and particular timespans, situates its story within a broad overview. And the volume stresses the uniqueness of the region's historical experience and explains how it serves as the background to some of the key conflicts in East Asia today.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
A Note on Spelling, Transliteration, and Names	p. xi
Introduction: East Asia-the Second Significant Front of the Cold War	p. 1
Struggles for Modernity: The Golden Years of the Sino-Soviet Alliance	p. 35
The Second Front of the Soviet Cold War: Asia in the System of Moscow's Foreign Policy Priorities, 1945-1956	p. 63
Reorienting the Cold War: The Implications of China's Early Cold War Experience, Taking Korea as a Central Test Case	p. 81
Military Occupation and Empire Building in Cold War Asia: The United States and Korea, 1945-1955	p. 98
Kim II Sung's Balancing Act between Moscow and Beijing, 1956-1972	p. 122
Chinese Foreign Policy, 1960-1979	p. 152
Japan's Foreign Policy under Détente: Relations with China and the Soviet Union, 1971-1973	p. 180
A Strategic Quadrangle: The Superpowers and the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship, 1977-1978	p. 213
Korea's Great Divergence: North and South Korea between 1972 and 1987	p. 241
Gorbachev's Policy toward East Asia, 1985-1991	p. 265
Inertia and Change: Soviet Policy toward Koroa, 1985-1991	p. 289
Contributors	p. 321
Index	p. 325
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