Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
12-2022
Abstract
This essay places the Vietnam War upon the larger canvas of Southeast and East Asian history by studying the long shadow that Britain’s Empire cast over U.S. entanglements across the region. It shows how British officials in Malaya and Singapore directly contributed to the expansion of US involvement in post-1945 Southeast Asia, as well as the overall pro-US trajectory of the region well before the Americanization of the Vietnam conflict.
Keywords
Cold War, Vietnam War, Southeast Asia, Domino Theory, U.S. empire, colonialism
Discipline
Asian Studies | International Relations | Military History
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
The Vietnam War in the Pacific World
Editor
Brian Cuddy & Fredrik Logevall
First Page
16
Last Page
30
ISBN
9781469671147
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
City or Country
Chapel Hill
Citation
NGOEI, Wen-Qing. (2022). British Neo-colonialism in Malaya and Singapore, and U.S. Empire in the Pacific. In The Vietnam War in the Pacific World (pp. 16-30). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3604
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Authors
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