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Article: The United States in the Asia-Pacific Since 1945.(Book Review)
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- Military Review
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- January 1, 2005
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THE UNITED STATES IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC SINCE 1945, Roger Buckley, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2002, 258 pages, $65.00.
The United States in the Asia-Pacific Since 1945 could have been an exercise in academic absurdity and cruelty, but instead enlightens and educates. In seven chronologically organized chapters, Roger Buckley outlines U.S. policy in East and Southeast Asia since 1945 when Japan surrendered.
In 1945, Asia was defined by colonial powers trying to reassert dominion over their colonies with nationalist movements in armed struggle with them, and a prostrate Japan--the object of Soviet and U.S. interest. The United States was the ...