Historical Dictionary of United States-Southeast Asia Relations
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- 2008
Summary
Southeast Asia consists of the countries of Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Historically, U.S. policy and diplomacy with Southeast Asia is defined by U.S. interests in the region, whether it's maintaining free lanes of communication through the South China Sea, gaining access to the resources and markets of Southeast Asia, or containing the spread of Communism. Since World War II, the U.S. has constantly been involved in conflicts in the region: providing material and financial support for France during the First Indochina War, direct involvement in the Vietnam War, providing support to Thailand during the Third Indochina War, and the declaration that Southeast Asia is the second-front in the war on terror after September 11. The Historical Dictionary of United States-Southeast Asia Relations identifies the key issues, individuals, and events in the history of U.S.-Southeast Asia relations and places them in the context of the complex and dynamic regional strategic, political, and economic processes that have fashioned the American role in Southeast Asia. This is done through a chronology, a bibliography, an introductory essay, appendixes, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on key persons, places, events, institutions, and organizations.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2008
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-8108-5542-7
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-8108-6405-4
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 436
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- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Editor's Foreword No access
- Preface No access
- Acronyms and Abbreviations No access
- Map of Southeast Asia No access
- Chronology No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 26
- THE DICTIONARY No access Pages 27 - 402
- Appendix A: United States Presidents and Secretaries of State, 1945-2007 No access Pages 403 - 404
- Appendix B: Assistant Secretaries of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 1950-2007 No access Pages 405 - 406
- Bibliography No access Pages 407 - 434
- About the Author No access Pages 435 - 436





