The Defence of Malaysia and Singapore
The Transformation of a Security System 1957–1971

A 1983 examination of the defence agreement for the Malaysia-Singapore region.

Kin Wah Chin (Author)

9780521124409, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 3 December 2009

232 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.51 kg

This book was first published in 1983: for fourteen years since Malaya's independence in 1957, the external defence of the Malayan (later Malaysian) - Singapore region was provided for within the legal framework of the Anglo-Malaysian Defence Agreement. The external powers involved were Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Kin Wah Chin provides a study of the defence of the region from the perspective of evolving intra-alliance relations within a unique defence system which embraced an anchor power, two associates and two recipients of alliance security.

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Note on currency units
1. Introduction
2. Pre-treaty defence relations
3. Decolonisation and the institution of the defence agreement
4. The extension of AMDA
5. The external testing of AMDA
6. Towards a closing of ranks
7. The fractured axis
8. Britain weighs anchor
9. From AMDA to the five-power defence system
10. Conclusions.

Subject Areas: Politics & government [JP]