Who blinked? Britain and the Sunda Straits Crisis, 1964-66.

• Main Author: Toh, Boon Kwan.
• Other Authors: Khong, Yuen Foong
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14391
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Using newly released declassified government records from the British archives, this thesis revises the prevalent notion that Britain successfully deterred Indonesia from further escalation of hostilities during Confrontation due to its successful conduct of the Sunda Straits Crisis. It argues that...