The US-Thai Alliance and Asian International Relations. History, Memory and Current Developments

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Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents About the authors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: History, Memory and the Us-Thai Alliance An Approach Based On Memory The Puzzle Memory and the Theory of Alliances History, Identity and Memory The Methodology of this Book What this Book Is and Is Not Conclusion Notes 2 Thailand and the Great Powers The Idea and Experience of Great Powers French Wolf and Siamese Lamb Perfidious Albion and Mueang Phudi: Britain in Thai Memory Memory of Europe: the Triumphant 1897 Tour Russia: Sentimental Friends India: a Very Distant Source of Culture Japan: a Manicured Site of Happy Amnesia Conclusion Notes 3 Historical Memory and the us-Thai Alliance The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Memory of Gratitude The Cold War: Memories of Interference and Difficult Social and Political Legacies Aid and Entanglement The Parting of Ways Amidst Social Revolution: the Us Exit and the Geopolitical Turn Post–Cold War: Memory of Drift and Disregard Conclusion Notes 4 Rediscovering China A Statistical Pointer to a Rich Perception China As Homeland: Ethnicity and the Remembrance and Suppression of Heritage and Identity China As Protector The Brief Period of China As An Adversary Memory of China As a Proximate Giant Concerns in the Current Era Conclusion Notes 5 Thailand at the Centre I: Pan-Asianism and Asean Early Pan-Asianism Thailand and the Memory of Suvarnabhumi ASEAN As a Site of Memory Conclusion Notes 6 Thailand at the Centre II: Neighbours “Us and Them”: the Other in Thai Nationalist Memory Thai Memory and Laos Thai Memory and Burma Myanmar Thai Memory and Cambodia Thai Memory and Vietnam Conclusion Notes Conclusion: An Alliance in Trouble Memory and Alliances: Theoretical Findings Identity and Memory in Us-China Competition for Influence Implications for Other Southeast Asian States Conclusion Notes Bibliography Archival Sources British Library Foreign Records of the United States National Archives and Records Administration (united States) Singapore National Archives Thailand National Archives United Kingdom National Archives Books, Journal Articles, and Reports Glossary Annexure: Selected Survey Results Index