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Author Ang, Cheng Guan, author.

Title Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War / Ang Cheng Guan
Published London : Routledge, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 131 pages)
Series Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 59
Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia (2005) ; 59.
Contents Background -- 1965-66 : attitude towards the war, the early years -- 1967 : growing doubts about the United States in Vietnam -- 1968-70 : the impact of the Tet Offensive -- The Jakarta Conference -- 1971-74 : Sino-US rapprochement and the Paris Peace Agreement -- 1975 : the Vietnam War ends
Summary "This book describes and explains Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore's attitudes and policies regarding the Vietnam War. While it is generally known that all three countries supported the US war effort in Vietnam, it reveals the motivations behind the decisions of the decision makers, the twists and turns and the nuances in the attitudes of Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore following the development of the war from the 1950s through to its end in 1975. Although the principal focus is the three supposedly non-aligned countries - Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, the perspectives of Thailand and the Philippines - the two Southeast Asian countries which were formally allied with the United States - are discussed at the appropriate junctures. It makes an original contribution to the gradually growing literature on the international history of the Vietnam War and furthers our knowledge of the diplomatic history of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore in the early independent years, 1945/1949, 1957 and 1965 respectively, which coincided with early years of the Cold War in Southeast Asia"--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from electronic title page (Ebsco, viewed on February 3, 2021)
Subject Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Southeast Asia
HISTORY -- Military -- Vietnam War.
International relations
Internationale Politik
Vietnamkrieg
Vietnamkrieg -- Politik -- Südostasien.
SUBJECT Southeast Asia -- Relations -- Vietnam
Vietnam -- Relations -- Southeast Asia
Subject Southeast Asia
Vietnam
Südostasien
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203866597
0203866592
9780415557092
0415557097