Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia - Couverture souple

Ngoei, Wen-Qing

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1501770195 ISBN 13 : 9781501770197

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2023

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Wen-Qing Ngoei is Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University. His work has been published in Diplomatic History and the Journal of American-East Asian Relations.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1501770195
• ISBN 13: 9781501770197
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 270
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