Download or read book Outposts of Empire written by Steven Hugh Lee and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following World War II the United States, determined to prevent the extension of Soviet and Communist Chinese influence, took the lead in organizing the defence of Western interests in Asia. Steven Lee explores the foreign policy objectives of the United States, Great Britain, and Canada, and examines the role that economic and military aid played in their attempts to establish pro-Western, anti-Communist governments on the periphery of Communist East Asia.