Divided Allies
Subtitle: Strategic Cooperation Against the Communist Threat in the Asia-Pacific During the Early Cold War
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781501741845
Description: "By directly challenging existing accounts of post-World War II relations among the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, Divided Allies is a significant contribution to transnational and diplomatic history. At its heart, Divided Allies examines why strategic cooperation among these closely allied Western powers in the Asia-Pacific region was limited during the early Cold War. Thomas K. Robb and David James Gill probe the difficulties of security cooperation as the leadership of these four states balanced intramural competition with the need to develop a common strategy against the Soviet Union and the new communist power, the People's Republic of China"--