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Product details
- ISBN 9780199580361
- Weight: 485g
- Dimensions: 145 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 2010
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In 1964 Britain's defence presence in Malaysia and Singapore was the largest and most expensive component of the country's world-wide role. Yet within three and a half years the Wilson Government had announced that Britain would be withdrawing from its major Southeast Asian bases and abandoning any special military role 'East of Suez'. Drawing upon previously classified government records P.L. Pham examines and explains how the Wilson Government came to this conclusion, one of the most significant decisions in the decline of British global power after the Second World War.
Substantially revising earlier accounts, Pham exposes the inner workings of government, the close but strained relations between the United Kingdom and the United States in the midst of Cold War tensions, and how politicians and policy makers managed the decline of British power, providing an in-depth and comprehensive study of British policy processes of the era.
Dr P.L. Pham was educated at the University of Melbourne before receiving his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is currently working as an Advisor to the Australian Minister for Health.
