Political and Moral Imperatives of the Bandung Conference of 1955

Kweku Ampiah is an Academic Fellow in the Department of East Asian Studies (and in the White Rose East Asia Centre), School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds.

• Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Neutralism as a political force in Asia in the mid-1950s; 2 US attitudes towards the conference: From revulsion, to 'benevolent indifference', and reluctant acceptance; 3 Britain and Bandung: Whitehall's prognosis; 4 Japan's journey back to Asia and the new foreign policy of independence; 5 Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index