Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia

Name: Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia — New York Southeast Asia Network
Start: 2019-03-07T17:00:00-0500
End: 2019-03-07T19:00:00-0500
Location: Fayerweather Hall Rm. 513

Thursday, March 7, 2019
5:00 PM 7:00 PM

Fayerweather Hall Rm. 513 1180 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY, 10027 United States (map)

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Arc 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.

Featuring Wen-Qing Ngoei, Nanyang Technological University

Moderated by Lien-Hnag Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University

Hosted by Center for International History and Weatherhead East Asian Institute.

Posted In: History, Vietnam

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