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<P><I>Arc of Containment</I> 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.</P><P>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 in decades of colonial rule. Also essential to the analysis in <I>Arc of Containment</I> is the considerable influence of Southeast Asian actors upon Anglo-American imperial strategy throughout the post-war period. </P><P>In <I>Arc of Containment </I>Ngoei shows how the pro-US trajectory of Southeast Asia after the Pacific War was, in fact, far more characteristic of the wider region's history than American policy failure in V

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Author

Ngoei, Wen-Qing

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501716409

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Language Learning, Humanities