Review of Ang Cheng Guan, Southeast Asia’s cold war: An interpretative history

• Main Author: NGOEI, Wen-Qing (WEI Wenqing)
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Cold War; Southeast Asia; communism; United States; China; Soviet Union; ASEAN; Asian Studies; Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3215; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4472/viewcontent/A_FORMIDABLE_WORK_THAT_OPENS_THE_DOOR.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Ang Cheng Guan’s Southeast Asia’s Cold War: An Interpretive History makes a welcome scholarly contribution to the field. As he rightly points out in the introduction to his book, the “voluminous” literature concerned with the Cold War in Southeast Asia has too long centered on the United States, Eur...