1st Edition

Cold War Frontiers in the Asia-Pacific Divided Territories in the San Francisco System

By Kimie Hara Copyright 2007
272 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

After World War II, many regional conflicts emerged in the Asia-Pacific, such as the divided Korean peninsula, the Cross-Taiwan Strait, the ‘Northern Territories’, (Southern Kuriles) Takeshima (Dokdo), Senkaku (Diaoyu) and the Spratly (Nansha) islands problems. These and other disputes, such as the Okinawa problem in relation to the US military presence in the region, all share an important... Read more

Introduction: Rethinking the "Cold War" in the Asia-Pacific  1. Korea: The Divided Peninsula and the Tokdo/Takeshima Dispute  2. Formosa: The Cross-Taiwan Strait Problem  3. The Kurile Islands: The "Northern Territories" Dispute  4. Micronesia: "An American Lake"  5. Antarctica  6. The Spratlys and the Paracels: The South China Sea Dispute  7. The Ryukyus: Okinawa and the Senkaku/Diaoyu Dispute.  Conclusion

Biography

Kimie Hara is a professor and the Renison Research Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada.