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Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2019

1 online resource (270 pages)

ISBN 9781501716423 (e-book)

ISBN 9781501716416

The United States in the world

Print version: Ngoei, Wen-Qing, 1976- Arc of containment : Britain, the United States, and anticommunism in Southeast Asia. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2019 270 pages United States in the world. ISBN 9781501716416

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : recovering the regional dimensions of U.S. policy toward Southeast Asia -- Darkest moment : the fall of Singapore and "Chinese penetration" in the domino logic of American Cold War policy -- Patriot games : how British nation-building colonialism solved "Chinese penetration" and inspired the United States -- Manifest fantasies : British-Malayan counterinsurgency and nation-building in American strategy for the world (and Vietnam) -- The best hope : Malaysia in the "wide anti-communist arc" of Southeast Asia -- The friendly kings : Southeast Asia’s transition from Anglo-American predominance to U.S. hegemony -- Coda : the reverse domino effect.

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