Publication Type
Blog Post
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
7-2019
Abstract
This essay examines how US preoccupation with British counterinsurgency in Malaya exerted a profound impact on US Cold War policy in Vietnam and the Global South, and continues to have consequences for American interventions in the present.
Keywords
counterinsurgency, Cold War, Malayan Emergency, Britain, United States
Discipline
International and Area Studies
Research Areas
Humanities
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Citation
NGOEI, Wen-Qing (WEI Wenqing), "The “Lessons” of Britain’s counterinsurgency in Malaya: An American obsession" (2019). Research Collection School of Social Sciences. Paper 3211.
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3211
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3211
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