Alternative Title
A Wide Anticommunist Arc
Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
11-2017
Abstract
President Richard Nixon’s triangular diplomacy succeeded because a “wide anticommunist arc” of U.S. allies in Southeast Asia had confined the influence of both China and the USSR to the Indochinese states. Beijing and Moscow welcomed détente with Washington in order to accommodate to de facto U.S. hegemony in the region.
Keywords
Cold War, Vietnam War, ASEAN, British decolonisation, Five Power Defence Arrangement, Southeast Asia, rapprochement, detente, US empire, Soviet Union, China
Discipline
Asian Studies | International Relations | Political Science
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Diplomatic History
Volume
41
Issue
5
First Page
903
Last Page
932
ISSN
0145-2096
Identifier
10.1093/dh/dhx033
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy L
Citation
NGOEI, Wen-Qing.(2017). A wide anticommunist arc: Britain, ASEAN, and Nixon's triangular diplomacy. Diplomatic History, 41(5), 903-932.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3207
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhx033