Southeast Asia and the Cold War

✍ Scribed by Albert Lau (editor)

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 313
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The origins and the key defining moments of the Cold War in Southeast Asia have been widely debated. This book focuses on an area that has received less attention, the impact and legacy of the Cold War on the various countries in the region, as well as on the region itself.

The book contributes to the historiography of the Cold War in Southeast Asia by examining not only how the conflict shaped the milieu in which national and regional change unfolded but also how the context influenced the course and tenor of the Cold War in the region. It goes on to look at the usefulness or limitations of using the Cold War as an interpretative framework for understanding change in Southeast Asia.

Chapters discuss how the Cold War had a varied but notable impact on the countries in Southeast Asia, not only on the mainland countries belonging to what the British Foreign Office called the "upper arc", but also on those situated on its maritime "lower arc". The book is an important contribution to the fields of Asian Studies and International Relations.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of tables
List of contributors
Preface
List of abbreviations and acronyms
Introduction: Southeast Asia and the Cold War
1 Britain and the Cold War in Southeast Asia
PART I The Cold War in the ‘lower arc’
2 The Philippines’ search for security in the first years of the Cold War, 1946–51
3 Decolonization and the Cold War in Singapore, 1955–9
4 The Cold War, Malayan decolonization and the making of the Federation of Malaysia
5 View from the other side: the early Cold War in Malaysia from the memoirs and writings of former MCP members
6 The Cold War and British Borneo: impact and legacy 1945–63
7 The Cold War and its impact on Indonesia: domestic politics and foreign policy
PART II The Cold War in the ‘upper arc’
8 The Cold War and Vietnam 1945–54: how did a nationalist struggle turn into a class struggle?
9 The Vietnamese Revolution in the Cold War and its impact on Vietnam–ASEAN relations during the 1960s and 1970s
10 Thailand and the secret war in Laos, 1960–74
11 The Cold War and Thai democratization
12 The Jakarta conference on Cambodia, 1970
Select bibliography
Index

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