Author Description

About the Author Brian P. Farrell is Professor of Military History at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He is the author of The Defence and Fall of Singapore 1940-1942 (2005) and The Basis and Making of British Grand Strategy 1940-1943 (1998). He has also co-authored, edited and co-edited several other books.Andrea Benvenuti is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of several books, including Cold War and Decolonisation: Australia's Policy Towards Britain's End of Empire in Southeast Asia (2017).Shannon Brown is Senior Lecturer in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, USA.Charles Burgess is a PhD candidate in History at the National University of Singapore, Singapore, where his broad research interests include military, diplomatic, and international history, focusing on grand strategy and coalition warfare.Karl Hack is Professor of History and Head of the School of History, Religious Studies, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of several books, including War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore (2012). Product Description This landmark two-volume set comprehensively examines the role, influence and contributions of American and European military power and statecraft in shaping the state system and regional order in modern Asia across the 20th century. From the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 to the close of the 1970s, Western Military Power and the Reordering of Modern Asia, 1900-1979 explains how strategic foreign policy in the West was used to politically reorder the modern ‘Far East’, an arc of space stretching from Vladivostok to Burma – referred to here as the Asia Pacific.The volumes pay particularly close attention to the major international ‘visions’ for restructuring an Asian states system within a changing, increasingly global, political order set fort