Nicholas Tarling is a Fellow of the New Zealand Asia Institute at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and one of the world’s leading authorities on the history of Southeast Asia. His publications include Southeast Asia and the Great Powers (Routledge, 2010), Britain and the Neutralisation of Laos (2011), and New Zealand the Making of an Asia-Pacific Society (2011).

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• 1. Introduction 2. Traditional hierarchy 3. Conquests and contracts 4. European empires 5. The Co-Prosperity Sphere 6. Independence 7. Regionalism

Nicholas Tarling is a Fellow of the New Zealand Asia Institute at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and one of the world’s leading authorities on the history of Southeast Asia. His publications include Southeast Asia and the Great Powers (Routledge, 2010), Britain and the Neutralisation of Laos (2011), and New Zealand the Making of an Asia-Pacific Society (2011).

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• 1. Introduction 2. Traditional hierarchy 3. Conquests and contracts 4. European empires 5. The Co-Prosperity Sphere 6. Independence 7. Regionalism

Nicholas Tarling is a Fellow of the New Zealand Asia Institute at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and one of the world’s leading authorities on the history of Southeast Asia. His publications include Southeast Asia and the Great Powers (Routledge, 2010), Britain and the Neutralisation of Laos (2011), and New Zealand the Making of an Asia-Pacific Society (2011).

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• 1. Introduction 2. Traditional hierarchy 3. Conquests and contracts 4. European empires 5. The Co-Prosperity Sphere 6. Independence 7. Regionalism