Book Launch: Cold War Asia - A Visual History of Global Diplomacy

Cold War Asia explore how leaders, including Indonesia’s Sukarno, the Philippines’ Imelda Marcos, and Thailand’s King Bhumibol, exploited the symbolic value of diplomacy to emphasise their agency in relationships with Great Powers. These case studies demonstrate the significance of Asian diplomacy in understanding the Cold War, shifting away from the use of ‘war’ as the dominant criterion for analysis of the region. Cold War Asia sheds critical light onto how culture shapes international relations, widening the lens of analysis to embed the role of gender, religion, and ethnicity, as well as the material world, into our understanding of diplomacy.
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Speakers:
Naoko Shimazu, Professor of Global History, Tokyo University
Matthew Phillips, First Secretary, British Embassy Bangkok & Research Associate, SOAS
Tom White, Parallax Photo Journal
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