LEADER 05102nam 22006615 450 001 9910480679903321 005 20210716010547.0 010 $a1-5017-1642-5 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501716423 035 $a(CKB)4100000007935417 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5749879 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002146508 035 $a(OCoLC)1050143039 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse74536 035 $a(DE-B1597)527374 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501716423 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007935417 100 $a20200229h20192019 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aArc of Containment $eBritain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia /$fWen-Qing Ngoei 210 1$aIthaca, NY :$cCornell University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (270 pages) 225 0 $aThe United States in the World 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2019. 311 0 $a1-5017-1640-9 311 0 $a1-5017-1641-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction. Recovering the Regional Dimensions of U.S. Policy toward Southeast Asia --$tChapter 1. Darkest Moment. The Fall of Singapore, "Chinese Penetration," and the Domino Theory --$tChapter 2. Patriot Games. How British Nation-Building Colonialism Inspired the United States --$tChapter 3. Manifest Fantasies. British-Malayan Counterinsurgency and Nation Building in U.S. Strategy --$tChapter 4. The Best Hope. Malaysia in the "Wide Anti-Communist Arc" of Southeast Asia --$tChapter 5. The Friendly Kings. Southeast Asia's Transition from Anglo-American Predominance to U.S. Hegemony --$tCoda. The "Reverse Domino Effect" --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aArc of Containment recasts the history of American empire in Southeast and East Asia from World War II through the end of American intervention in Vietnam. Setting aside the classic story of anxiety about falling dominoes, Wen-Qing Ngoei articulates a new regional history premised on strong security and sure containment guaranteed by Anglo-American cooperation. Ngoei argues that anticommunist nationalism in Southeast Asia intersected with preexisting local antipathy toward China and the Chinese diaspora to usher the region from European-dominated colonialism to US hegemony. Central to this revisionary strategic assessment is the place of British power and the effects of direct neocolonial military might and less overt cultural influences based in decades of colonial rule. Also essential to the analysis in Arc of Containment is the considerable influence of Southeast Asian actors upon Anglo-American imperial strategy throughout the post-war period. In Arc of Containment Ngoei shows how the pro-US trajectory of Southeast Asia after the Pacific War was, in fact, far more characteristic of the wider region's history than American policy failure in Vietnam. Indeed, by the early 1970's, five key anticommunist nations-Malaya, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia-had quashed Chinese-influenced socialist movements at home and established, with U.S. support, a geostrategic arc of states that contained the Vietnamese revolution and encircled China. In the process, the Euro-American colonial order of Southeast Asia passed from an era of Anglo-American predominance into a condition of US hegemony. Arc of Containment demonstrates that American failure in Vietnam had less long-term consequences than widely believed because British pro-West nationalism had been firmly entrenched twenty-plus years earlier. In effect, Ngoei argues, the Cold War in Southeast Asia was but one violent chapter in the continuous history of western imperialism in the region in the twentieth century. 410 0$aUnited States in the world. 410 0$aStudies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. 606 $aChinese$zSoutheast Asia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPostcolonialism$zSoutheast Asia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aNationalism$zSoutheast Asia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCommunism$zSoutheast Asia$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aSoutheast Asia$xForeign relations$zGreat Britain 607 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$zSoutheast Asia 607 $aSoutheast Asia$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zSoutheast Asia 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aDecolonization, anticommunism, empire, foreign relations, Malaya, Singapore. 615 0$aChinese$xHistory 615 0$aPostcolonialism$xHistory 615 0$aNationalism$xHistory 615 0$aCommunism$xHistory 676 $a327.73059 700 $aNgoei$b Wen-Qing$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01031530 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480679903321 996 $aArc of Containment$92448935 997 $aUNINA