The British Empire was in decline and consolidation became part of its ""Grand Design"" for North Borneo, Sarawak, Brunei and Singapore. In 1963, Malaysia emerged from these territories as a new nation-state. But inter-state jealousy continued and the policy fractured as Singapore broke away in 1965. Based on a close study of official documents and private papers, A J Stockwell illuminates the struggles and frustrations in the engine-room of decolonization. He shows British policy at the end of empire--a declining power, struggling with decolonization involving a region with a mix of states, interests and ethnicities, all the while trying to retain influence.
- ISBN10 1850438455
- ISBN13 9781850438458
- Publish Date 30 December 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 November 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint I.B. Tauris
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English