Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface and acknowledgements -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction: Britain, the United States and the South East Asian setting -- Part I Build-up -- 1 The Kennedy Administration, Indonesia and the resolution of the West Irian crisis, 1961-1962 -- 2 The Greater Malaysia scheme I: the move towards merger -- 3 The Greater Malaysia scheme II: the Cobbold Commission and the Borneo territories -- 4 Britain, Indonesia and Malaya: from West Irian to the Brunei revolt -- Part II Outbreak -- 5 The emergence of confrontation: January-May 1963 -- 6 The path to the Manila summit, May-July 1963 -- 7 From the Manila summit to the creation of Malaysia: August-September 1963 -- 8 Avoiding escalation, September-December 1963 -- Part III Denouement -- 9 The diplomacy of confrontation, Anglo-American relations and the Vietnam War, January-June 1964 -- 10 Escalation, upheaval and reappraisal, July 1964-October 1965 -- Conclusion: The Western presence in South East Asia by the 1960s -- Bibliography -- UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTS -- PUBLISHED DOCUMENTS -- BOOKS -- ARTICLES -- OTHER WORK -- Index.