Matthew Phillips is a diplomat based in Bangkok. Naoko Shimazu is a global historian of Asia and Professor at Tokyo College, International Institute for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo.

'This volume presents a collection of concise and effective contributions by a diverse group of scholars and practitioners who bring to life symbolic moments and everyday manifestations of diplomacy through refreshing and expansive readings of more and less iconic photographs of the Cold War in Southeast Asia. A key reading for anyone interested in exploring the relationship between images and the politics they represent, project, and keep hidden.' Chiara Formichi, Cornell University

• List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: visual sources and diplomacy Matthew Phillips and Naoko Shimazu; 1. Reframing non-alignment: Tito, Sukarno and the 1961 Belgrade conference Dejan Djokić; 2. In the image of Imelda: the surrogate diplomacy of the First Lady Patrick Flores; 3. Meeting of the kings: the dream factory and cold war diplomacy Jirayudh Sinthuphan; 4. Conquering the world: King Bhumibol's 1960 visit to Burma on film Matthew Phillips; 5. Between style and substance: West German president Heinrich Lübke in Indonesia in 1963 Christian Goeschel; 6. A photograph with two stories: Lisa Larsen and the bandung conference of 1955 Naoko Shimazu; 7. Waxwork wars: exhibiting the Japanese surrender over half a century in Singapore Paul Rae; 8. Cosmic envoy: interkosmos and the poetics of late socialist spaceflight Gerard Sasges; 9. A diplomatic image and its afterlife: Bangkok 1967 and ASEAN's creation myth Deepak Nair; 10. Picturing power: a photographer's view Tom White; Index.

Matthew Phillips is a diplomat based in Bangkok. Naoko Shimazu is a global historian of Asia and Professor at Tokyo College, International Institute for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo.

'This volume presents a collection of concise and effective contributions by a diverse group of scholars and practitioners who bring to life symbolic moments and everyday manifestations of diplomacy through refreshing and expansive readings of more and less iconic photographs of the Cold War in Southeast Asia. A key reading for anyone interested in exploring the relationship between images and the politics they represent, project, and keep hidden.' Chiara Formichi, Cornell University

• List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: visual sources and diplomacy Matthew Phillips and Naoko Shimazu; 1. Reframing non-alignment: Tito, Sukarno and the 1961 Belgrade conference Dejan Djokić; 2. In the image of Imelda: the surrogate diplomacy of the First Lady Patrick Flores; 3. Meeting of the kings: the dream factory and cold war diplomacy Jirayudh Sinthuphan; 4. Conquering the world: King Bhumibol's 1960 visit to Burma on film Matthew Phillips; 5. Between style and substance: West German president Heinrich Lübke in Indonesia in 1963 Christian Goeschel; 6. A photograph with two stories: Lisa Larsen and the bandung conference of 1955 Naoko Shimazu; 7. Waxwork wars: exhibiting the Japanese surrender over half a century in Singapore Paul Rae; 8. Cosmic envoy: interkosmos and the poetics of late socialist spaceflight Gerard Sasges; 9. A diplomatic image and its afterlife: Bangkok 1967 and ASEAN's creation myth Deepak Nair; 10. Picturing power: a photographer's view Tom White; Index.

Matthew Phillips is a diplomat based in Bangkok. Naoko Shimazu is a global historian of Asia and Professor at Tokyo College, International Institute for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo.

'This volume presents a collection of concise and effective contributions by a diverse group of scholars and practitioners who bring to life symbolic moments and everyday manifestations of diplomacy through refreshing and expansive readings of more and less iconic photographs of the Cold War in Southeast Asia. A key reading for anyone interested in exploring the relationship between images and the politics they represent, project, and keep hidden.' Chiara Formichi, Cornell University

• List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: visual sources and diplomacy Matthew Phillips and Naoko Shimazu; 1. Reframing non-alignment: Tito, Sukarno and the 1961 Belgrade conference Dejan Djokić; 2. In the image of Imelda: the surrogate diplomacy of the First Lady Patrick Flores; 3. Meeting of the kings: the dream factory and cold war diplomacy Jirayudh Sinthuphan; 4. Conquering the world: King Bhumibol's 1960 visit to Burma on film Matthew Phillips; 5. Between style and substance: West German president Heinrich Lübke in Indonesia in 1963 Christian Goeschel; 6. A photograph with two stories: Lisa Larsen and the bandung conference of 1955 Naoko Shimazu; 7. Waxwork wars: exhibiting the Japanese surrender over half a century in Singapore Paul Rae; 8. Cosmic envoy: interkosmos and the poetics of late socialist spaceflight Gerard Sasges; 9. A diplomatic image and its afterlife: Bangkok 1967 and ASEAN's creation myth Deepak Nair; 10. Picturing power: a photographer's view Tom White; Index.