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Hot spot : Asia and Oceania / edited by Clinton Fernandes.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Hot spot historiesPublisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008Description: xlvii, 280 pages : maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 031335412X
  • 9780313354120
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 950.4 22
LOC classification:
  • DS33 .H67 2008
Contents:
Ch. 1. China and East Asia / Sally Burt -- Geographic Factors -- Pre-Independence -- Communism -- Foreign Relations after September 11 -- The Spratly Islands -- Taiwan -- Japan -- Ch. 2. East Timor / Clinton Fernandes -- Portuguese Colonialism -- Carnation Revolution -- Indonesian Invasion and Occupation -- Crimes against Humanity -- UN Transitional Administration -- Post-Independence Challenges -- Ch. 3. Fiji / Jon Fraenkel -- Land Policy -- The Political Order -- The 1987 Coup -- The 2000 Coup -- Makings of the 2006 Coup -- Ch. 4. The India-China Border / Manjeet S. Pardesi -- Historical Interactions -- State Structures before Colonialism -- The Historical Status of Tibet -- The Frontier from 1914 to 1947 -- The Pre-War Years -- The Tibetan Revolt, India's Forward Policy, and the War -- Normalization of Relations -- Ch. 5. Indonesia / Damien Kingsbury and Clinton Fernandes -- Aceh -- West Papua -- Ch. 6. Kashmir / Nicolas Blarel -- Partition Syndrome -- The Second Indo-Pakistani War -- The Bangladesh War -- The 1987 Insurgency -- The Kargil Crisis -- Dispute after September 11 -- Ch. 7. Korea / Stewart Lone -- Japanese Colonialism -- Volatility after World War II -- The Korean War -- Inter-Korean relations in the 1970s -- The North Korean Economic Decline -- Post-Cold War Conflict -- Nuclear Weapons -- Ch. 8. Myanmar (Burma) / Sally Burt -- The Rise of Modern-day Myanmar -- The 1988 Crisis -- The SPDC and the NLD -- International Relations -- Ch. 9. The Philippines / Clinton Fernandes -- Spanish Rule -- U.S. Rule and the Huks -- The Era of Ferdinand Marcos -- Aquino and Ramos -- Insurgencies -- Ch. 10. Solomon Islands / Sinclair Dinnen -- The Political System after Independence -- Ethnic Tensions and the 2000 Coup -- The Townsville Peace Agreement -- The Instrumentalization of Disorder -- Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands -- April 2006 Unrest -- Ch. 11. Sri Lanka / Damien Kingsbury -- Tamil Separatism -- Ch. 12. Thailand / Carlyle A. Thayer -- Al Qaeda's "Safe Haven" -- Historical Roots of the Thai Struggle -- Separatism in the South.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 950.4 HOT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A441003B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-272) and index.

Ch. 1. China and East Asia / Sally Burt -- Geographic Factors -- Pre-Independence -- Communism -- Foreign Relations after September 11 -- The Spratly Islands -- Taiwan -- Japan -- Ch. 2. East Timor / Clinton Fernandes -- Portuguese Colonialism -- Carnation Revolution -- Indonesian Invasion and Occupation -- Crimes against Humanity -- UN Transitional Administration -- Post-Independence Challenges -- Ch. 3. Fiji / Jon Fraenkel -- Land Policy -- The Political Order -- The 1987 Coup -- The 2000 Coup -- Makings of the 2006 Coup -- Ch. 4. The India-China Border / Manjeet S. Pardesi -- Historical Interactions -- State Structures before Colonialism -- The Historical Status of Tibet -- The Frontier from 1914 to 1947 -- The Pre-War Years -- The Tibetan Revolt, India's Forward Policy, and the War -- Normalization of Relations -- Ch. 5. Indonesia / Damien Kingsbury and Clinton Fernandes -- Aceh -- West Papua -- Ch. 6. Kashmir / Nicolas Blarel -- Partition Syndrome -- The Second Indo-Pakistani War -- The Bangladesh War -- The 1987 Insurgency -- The Kargil Crisis -- Dispute after September 11 -- Ch. 7. Korea / Stewart Lone -- Japanese Colonialism -- Volatility after World War II -- The Korean War -- Inter-Korean relations in the 1970s -- The North Korean Economic Decline -- Post-Cold War Conflict -- Nuclear Weapons -- Ch. 8. Myanmar (Burma) / Sally Burt -- The Rise of Modern-day Myanmar -- The 1988 Crisis -- The SPDC and the NLD -- International Relations -- Ch. 9. The Philippines / Clinton Fernandes -- Spanish Rule -- U.S. Rule and the Huks -- The Era of Ferdinand Marcos -- Aquino and Ramos -- Insurgencies -- Ch. 10. Solomon Islands / Sinclair Dinnen -- The Political System after Independence -- Ethnic Tensions and the 2000 Coup -- The Townsville Peace Agreement -- The Instrumentalization of Disorder -- Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands -- April 2006 Unrest -- Ch. 11. Sri Lanka / Damien Kingsbury -- Tamil Separatism -- Ch. 12. Thailand / Carlyle A. Thayer -- Al Qaeda's "Safe Haven" -- Historical Roots of the Thai Struggle -- Separatism in the South.

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