Publication Type
Book Review
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
10-2018
Abstract
The history of U.S.-Southeast Asian relations during the Cold War is dominated by studies of American involvement in Vietnam. If understandable, this state of affairs is nevertheless regrettable. For, even though U.S. cold warriors viewed the fates of Southeast Asia’s states as interconnected and pursued a containment strategy focused on the entire region, scholars of U.S. foreign relations with Southeast Asia pay outsized attention to Vietnam. There remain disappointingly few major works on U.S.-Indonesian relations despite years of American interference in Indonesia due to its huge population, the one-time prominence of its Beijing-oriented communist party, and firm American support for the Suharto dictatorship.Even the United States’ alliances with Thailand and the Philippines remain woefully under-studied.Kenton Clymer’s 2015 book on the American relationship with Myanmar was the first major work on the subject since 1976.
Keywords
Singapore, United States, Non-Alignment, Cold War
Discipline
International and Area Studies | Political Science
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
H-Diplo
First Page
1
Last Page
1
ISBN
9789814722322
Citation
NGOEI, Wen-Qing (WEI Wenqing).(2018). Review of Daniel Chua, US-Singapore Relations, 1965-1975: Strategic Non-Alignment in the Cold War. H-Diplo, , 1-1.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3214
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