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Australia’s engagement with Asia from 1944 until the late 1960s was based on a sense of responsibility to the United Kingdom and its Southeast Asian colonies as they navigated a turbulent independence into the British Commonwealth. The circumstances of the early Cold War decades also provided for a mutual sense of solidarity with the non‑communist states of East Asia, with which Australia mostly enjoyed close relationships. From 1967 into the early 1970s, however, Commonwealth Responsibility and Cold War Solidarity demonstrates that the framework for this deep Australian engagement with its region was progressively eroded by a series of compounding, external factors: the 1967 formation of ASEAN and its consolidation by the mid-1970s as the premier regional organisation surpassing the Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC); Britain’s withdrawal from East of Suez; Washington’s de‑escalation and gradual withdrawal from Vietnam after March 1968; the 1969 Nixon doctrine that America’s Asia-Pacific allies must take up more of the burden of providing for their own security; and US rapprochement with China in 1972. The book shows that these profound changes marked the start of Australia’s political distancing from the region during the 1970s despite the intentions, efforts and policies of governments from Whitlam onwards to foster deeper engagement. By 1974, Australia had been pushed to the margins of the region, with its engagement premised on a broadening but shallower transactional basis.
Asia --- Relations --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Asian history --- Australasian & Pacific history --- Diplomacy --- Treaties & other sources of international law --- Australian foreign policy --- Australia and the Cold War --- Cold War in Asia --- Whitlam Government
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"Race for Empire offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. In parallel case studies--of Japanese Americans mobilized to serve in the United States Army and of Koreans recruited or drafted into the Japanese military--T. Fujitani examines the U.S. and Japanese empires as they struggled to manage racialized populations while waging total war. Fujitani probes governmental policies and analyzes representations of these soldiers--on film, in literature, and in archival documents--to reveal how characteristics of racism, nationalism, capitalism, gender politics, and the family changed on both sides. He demonstrates that the United States and Japan became increasingly alike over the course of the war, perhaps most tellingly in their common attempts to disavow racism even as they reproduced it in new ways and forms"--
World War, 1939-1945 --- Nationalism --- Racism --- Imperialism --- Participation, Japanese American. --- Participation, Korean. --- Social aspects --- History --- allied forces. --- america and asia. --- america and japan. --- asia and war. --- asia pacific modern. --- asia pacific war. --- asian american studies. --- asian empire. --- asian history. --- asian studies. --- cultural anthropology. --- cultural studies. --- eastern asia studies. --- enemy combatants. --- history. --- japanese americans. --- japanese colonialism. --- japanese historians. --- japanese history. --- japanese imperialism. --- korean historians. --- korean history. --- korean war history. --- military drama. --- us historians. --- us history. --- war and battles. --- war and racism. --- war in asia. --- wwii history.
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