Southeast Asia and the Cold War

Albert Lau is Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of The Malayan Union Controversy, 1942-1948, A Moment of Anguish: Singapore in Malaysia and the Politics of Disengagement, and a co-author of A New History of Southeast Asia.

• Introduction: Southeast Asia and the Cold War 1. Britain and the Cold War in Southeast Asia Part 1: The Cold War in the ‘Lower Arc’ 2. The Philippines Search for Security in the First Years of the Cold War 3. Decolonization and the Cold War in Singapore, 1955-1959 4. The Cold War, Malayan Decolonization and the Making of the Federation of Malaysia 5. View from the Other Side: Early Cold War in Malaysia from the Memoirs and Writings of former MCP Members 6. The Cold War and British Borneo: Impact and Legacy 7. The Cold War and its Impact on Indonesia: Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy Part 2: The Cold War in the ‘Upper Arc’ 8. The Cold War and Vietnam, 1945-1960: How Did a Nationalist Struggle Turn into a Class Struggle? 9. The Vietnamese Revolution in the Cold War and its Impact on Vietnam-ASEAN Relations during the 1960-1970s 10. Thailand and the Secret War in Laos, 1960-1974 11. The Cold War and Democratization in Thailand 12. The Jakarta Conference on Cambodia

"Overall, the book represents an important contribution to promoting complex analyses of the Cold War and contains a strong collection for historians and scholars of international relations and global studies interested in understanding and teaching not only the connections between the regional and global as well as the social and political in the Cold War but also Southeast Asia today." Martin Ottovay Jørgensen PhD, Aalborg University and Ghent University, Journal of International and Global Studies Volume 5, Number 2