Wen-Qing Ngoei is Associate Professor of History at the Singapore Management University. His work has been published in Diplomatic History and the Journal of American-East Asian Relations.
Ngoei issues a sad warning about the costs for the peoples of the
area subjected to the new and re-emergent Asian cold war
challenges. This is an important scholarly contribution.
*Choice*
Wen-Qing Ngoei's Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States,
and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia is a thought-provoking,
compelling, and significant contribution to the study of American
hegemony and intervention in postwar Southeast Asia.
*Southeast Asian Studies*
In this well-argued and convincing book, Wen-Qing Ngoei... delivers
a perceptive and comprehensive... overview of the diplomatic and
strategic evolution of Southeast Asia in the 1950s and 1960s. Arc
of Containment situates the Vietnam War in a regional context, and
students of history, diplomacy, politics, and security should find
it interesting and illuminating.
*The Journal of Asian Studies*
Arc of Containment, which is based upon adroit trawling in the
archives of the principal nations at issue—Great Britain, the
United States, Singapore, and Malaysia—is certainly one of the more
intriguing explorations of Washington's excruciating encounter in
Southeast Asia; and, like many good books, it sheds light
relentlessly on matters not necessarily addressed frontally: most
pointedly, Washington's conflict then entente with China.
*Diplomatic History*
By bringing the agency and influence of Southeast Asian actors into
his analysis, Ngoei's book offers more regional insight to
interested readers seeking knowledge about American influence in
Southeast Asia. The book itself represents a noteworthy
intersection of historical, comparative, and security scholarship
and would be of equal interest to historians, political scientists,
and regional scholars alike.
*PACIFIC AFFAIRS*
This relatively slim volume illuminates as it enlightens [a] vivid
testament to its immense value.
*Diplomatic History*
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