Information regimes during the Cold War in East Asia / edited by Jason Morgan.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

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"Morgan and his contributors develop the concept of the Information Regime as a way to understand the use, abuse, and control of information in East Asia during the Cold war period. During the Cold War, war itself was changing, as was statecraft. Information emerged as the most valuable commodity, becoming the key component of societies across the globe. This was especially true in East Asia, where the military alliances forged in the wake of World War II were put to the most severe tests. These tests came in the form of adversarial relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as pressures within their alliances, which eventually caused the People's Republic of China to break with from Moscow while Japan, for a time during the 1950s and 60s, seemed poised to move away from Washington. More important than military might, or economic influence, was the creation of "information regimes"--Swaths of territory where a paradigm, ideology, or political arrangement obtained. Information regimes are not necessarily state-centric and many of the contributors to this book focus on examples which were not. Doing so allows us to see that the East Asian Cold War was not really "cold" at all, but was the epicentre of an active, contentious birth of information as the defining element of human interaction. A valuable resource for historians of East Asia and of developments in information management in the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher

Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.

Print version: Information Regimes during the Cold War in East Asia. London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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August 08, 2024

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