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Southeast Asia's Cold War - An Interpretive History (Hardcover)
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Southeast Asia's Cold War - An Interpretive History (Hardcover)
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The historiography of the Cold War has long been dominated by
American motivations and concerns, with Southeast Asian
perspectives largely confined to the Indochina wars and Indonesia
under Sukarno. Southeast Asia's Cold War corrects this situation by
examining the international politics of the region from within
rather than without. It provides an up-to-date, coherent narrative
of the Cold War as it played out in Southeast Asia against a
backdrop of superpower rivalry. When viewed through a Southeast
Asian lens, the Cold War can be traced back to the interwar years
and antagonisms between indigenous communists and their opponents,
the colonial governments and their later successors. Burma,
Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and the Philippines join Vietnam and
Indonesia as key regional players with their own agendas, as
evidenced by the formation of SEATO and the Bandung conference. The
threat of global Communism orchestrated from Moscow, which had such
a powerful hold in the West, passed largely unnoticed in Southeast
Asia, where ideology took a back seat to regime preservation. China
and its evolving attitude toward the region proved far more
compelling: the emergence of the communist government there in 1949
helped further the development of communist networks in the
Southeast Asian region. Except in Vietnam, the Soviet Union's role
was peripheral: managing relationships with the United States and
China was what preoccupied Southeast Asia's leaders. The impact of
the Sino-Soviet split is visible in the decade-long Cambodian
conflict and the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979. This succinct volume
not only demonstrates the complexity of the region, but for the
first time provides a narrative that places decolonization and
nation-building alongside the usual geopolitical conflicts. It
focuses on local actors and marshals a wide range of literature in
support of its argument. Most importantly, it tells us how and why
the Cold War in Southeast Asia evolved the way it did and offers a
deeper understanding of the Southeast Asia we know today.
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