R.B. Smith was Professor of the International History of South-East Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he taught from 1962-2000. His works include Viet-nam and the West (1971); and the three volume: An International History of the Vietnam War (1983, 1985, 1990).Chad J. Mitcham is a Canberra-based writer and researcher. He completed his PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and is the author of China’s Economic Relations With the West and Japan, 1949-79: Grain, Trade and Diplomacy (Routledge, 2005).

"The book may be recommended for anyone wanting a well-informed, balanced overview of global and regional trends and influences that have shaped the character of East and South-East Asia..." -- Peter Lowe, University of Manchester, The International History Review

• EDITOR’S NOTE PREFACE LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS USED IN TEXT INTRODUCTION: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS PROLOGUE: THE SEATTLE ‘SUMMIT’, NOVEMBER 1993 PART I: VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1943 1. THE TOKYO CONFERENCE AND THE ‘GREATER EAST ASIA PERSPECTIVE, 1943 2. US, BRITISH AND COMMUNIST PERSPECTIVES ON EAST ASIA, 1943: TOWARDS A POST–WAR GLOBAL ECONOMY PART II: THE ‘COLD WAR’ IN EAST ASIA: 1953 AND 1963 3. A WORLD DIVIDED INTO TWO CAMPS’: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1953 4. THE CHALLENGE TO ‘AMERICAN IMPERIALISM’: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1963 PART III: ASIAN–PACIFIC DIMENSIONS OF TRIANGULAR DIPLOMACY AND GLOBAL FINANCE: 1973 5. NIXON’S NEW STRATEGY: THE US, CHINA AND THE FUTURE OF SOUTH–EAST ASIA, NOVEMBER 1973 6. DIRECTIONS OF GROWTH: THE US, JAPAN, AND ASIAN CAPITALISM: MAY-DECEMBER 1973 PART IV: GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION AND THE ‘ASIAN MIRACLE’: 1983-4 AND 1993 7. A ‘NEW COLD WAR’, AUTUMN 1983 8. THE REAFFIRMATION OF AMERICAN CENTRALITY (AUTUMN 1983) AND ‘THE REAL 1984’ 9. CAPITALISM MOVES AHEAD - REVOLUTIONS IN COMMUNICATIONS, FINANCE AND MILITARY AFFAIRS, 1993 EPILOGUE: VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

R.B. Smith was Professor of the International History of South-East Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he taught from 1962-2000. His works include Viet-nam and the West (1971); and the three volume: An International History of the Vietnam War (1983, 1985, 1990).Chad J. Mitcham is a Canberra-based writer and researcher. He completed his PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and is the author of China’s Economic Relations With the West and Japan, 1949-79: Grain, Trade and Diplomacy (Routledge, 2005).

"The book may be recommended for anyone wanting a well-informed, balanced overview of global and regional trends and influences that have shaped the character of East and South-East Asia..." -- Peter Lowe, University of Manchester, The International History Review

• EDITOR’S NOTE PREFACE LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS USED IN TEXT INTRODUCTION: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS PROLOGUE: THE SEATTLE ‘SUMMIT’, NOVEMBER 1993 PART I: VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1943 1. THE TOKYO CONFERENCE AND THE ‘GREATER EAST ASIA PERSPECTIVE, 1943 2. US, BRITISH AND COMMUNIST PERSPECTIVES ON EAST ASIA, 1943: TOWARDS A POST–WAR GLOBAL ECONOMY PART II: THE ‘COLD WAR’ IN EAST ASIA: 1953 AND 1963 3. A WORLD DIVIDED INTO TWO CAMPS’: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1953 4. THE CHALLENGE TO ‘AMERICAN IMPERIALISM’: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1963 PART III: ASIAN–PACIFIC DIMENSIONS OF TRIANGULAR DIPLOMACY AND GLOBAL FINANCE: 1973 5. NIXON’S NEW STRATEGY: THE US, CHINA AND THE FUTURE OF SOUTH–EAST ASIA, NOVEMBER 1973 6. DIRECTIONS OF GROWTH: THE US, JAPAN, AND ASIAN CAPITALISM: MAY-DECEMBER 1973 PART IV: GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION AND THE ‘ASIAN MIRACLE’: 1983-4 AND 1993 7. A ‘NEW COLD WAR’, AUTUMN 1983 8. THE REAFFIRMATION OF AMERICAN CENTRALITY (AUTUMN 1983) AND ‘THE REAL 1984’ 9. CAPITALISM MOVES AHEAD - REVOLUTIONS IN COMMUNICATIONS, FINANCE AND MILITARY AFFAIRS, 1993 EPILOGUE: VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

R.B. Smith was Professor of the International History of South-East Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he taught from 1962-2000. His works include Viet-nam and the West (1971); and the three volume: An International History of the Vietnam War (1983, 1985, 1990).Chad J. Mitcham is a Canberra-based writer and researcher. He completed his PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and is the author of China’s Economic Relations With the West and Japan, 1949-79: Grain, Trade and Diplomacy (Routledge, 2005).

"The book may be recommended for anyone wanting a well-informed, balanced overview of global and regional trends and influences that have shaped the character of East and South-East Asia..." -- Peter Lowe, University of Manchester, The International History Review

• EDITOR’S NOTE PREFACE LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS USED IN TEXT INTRODUCTION: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS PROLOGUE: THE SEATTLE ‘SUMMIT’, NOVEMBER 1993 PART I: VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1943 1. THE TOKYO CONFERENCE AND THE ‘GREATER EAST ASIA PERSPECTIVE, 1943 2. US, BRITISH AND COMMUNIST PERSPECTIVES ON EAST ASIA, 1943: TOWARDS A POST–WAR GLOBAL ECONOMY PART II: THE ‘COLD WAR’ IN EAST ASIA: 1953 AND 1963 3. A WORLD DIVIDED INTO TWO CAMPS’: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1953 4. THE CHALLENGE TO ‘AMERICAN IMPERIALISM’: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1963 PART III: ASIAN–PACIFIC DIMENSIONS OF TRIANGULAR DIPLOMACY AND GLOBAL FINANCE: 1973 5. NIXON’S NEW STRATEGY: THE US, CHINA AND THE FUTURE OF SOUTH–EAST ASIA, NOVEMBER 1973 6. DIRECTIONS OF GROWTH: THE US, JAPAN, AND ASIAN CAPITALISM: MAY-DECEMBER 1973 PART IV: GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION AND THE ‘ASIAN MIRACLE’: 1983-4 AND 1993 7. A ‘NEW COLD WAR’, AUTUMN 1983 8. THE REAFFIRMATION OF AMERICAN CENTRALITY (AUTUMN 1983) AND ‘THE REAL 1984’ 9. CAPITALISM MOVES AHEAD - REVOLUTIONS IN COMMUNICATIONS, FINANCE AND MILITARY AFFAIRS, 1993 EPILOGUE: VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX