Arc of Containment (eBook)

Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia

Wen-Qing Ngoei (Autor)

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2019
270 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-1641-6 (ISBN)

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Arc of Containment recasts the history of American empire in Southeast and East Asia from World War II through the end of American intervention in Vietnam. Setting aside the classic story of anxiety about falling dominoes, Wen-Qing Ngoei articulates a new regional history premised on strong security and sure containment guaranteed by Anglo-American cooperation.Ngoei argues that anticommunist nationalism in Southeast Asia intersected with preexisting local antipathy toward China and the Chinese diaspora to usher the region from European-dominated colonialism to US hegemony. Central to this revisionary strategic assessment is the place of British power and the effects of direct neocolonial military might and less overt cultural influences based on decades of colonial rule, as well as the considerable influence of Southeast Asian actors upon Anglo-American imperial strategy throughout the post-war period. Arc of Containment demonstrates that American failure in Vietnam had less long-term consequences than widely believed because British pro-West nationalism had been firmly entrenched twenty-plus years earlier. In effect, Ngoei argues, the Cold War in Southeast Asia was but one violent chapter in the continuous history of western imperialism in the region in the twentieth century.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.5.2019
• Reihe/Serie: The United States in the World
• Reihe/Serie: The United States in the World
• Zusatzinfo: 15 b&w halftones, 2 maps
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: Decolonization, anticommunism, empire, foreign relations, Malaya, Singapore • Decolonization,anticommunism,empire,foreign relations,Malaya,Singapore • Decolonization, anticommunism, Malaya, Singapore, Southeast Asian Anticommunist Nationalism, Anti-Chinese prejudice in Southeast Asia, British neocolonialism in Southeast Asia, geostrategic arc of anticommunism • Decolonization, anticommunism, Malaya, Singapore, Southeast Asian Anticommunist Nationalism, Anti-Chinese prejudice inSoutheast Asia, British neocolonialism in Southeast Asia, geostrategic arc of anticommunism
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-1641-7 / 1501716417
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-1641-6 / 9781501716416