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Ending the Vietnam War

The Vietnamese Communists' Perspective

By: Cheng Guan Ang

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Ending the Vietnam War

The Vietnamese Communists' Perspective

By: Cheng Guan Ang

Existing studies of the Vietnam War have been written mostly from an American perspective, using western sources, and viewing the conflict through western eyes. This book, based on extensive original research, including Vietnamese, Chinese and former Soviet sources, tells the story of the war from the Tet offensive in 1968 up to the reunification of Vietnam in April 1975. Overall, it provides an important corrective to the predominantly US-centric narratives of the war by placing the Vietnamese communists centre-stage in the story. It is a sequel to the author's Routledge Curzon book The Vietnam War From the Other Side, which covers the period 1962-68.

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Routledge

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1134341296

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9781134341290

Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought

By: Cheng Guan Ang

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Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought

By: Cheng Guan Ang

Lee Kuan Yew, as the founding father of independent Singapore, has had an enormous impact on the development of Singapore and of Southeast Asia more generally. Even in his 80s he is a key figure who continues to exert considerable influence from behind the scenes. This book presents a comprehensive overview of Lee Kuan Yew's strategic thought. It charts the development of Singapore over the last six decades, showing how Lee Kuan Yew has steered Singapore to prosperity and success through changing times. It analyses the factors underlying Lee Kuan Yew's thinking, discusses his own writings and speeches, and shows how his thinking on foreign policy, security and international relations has evolved over time.

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162

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Routledge

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0415658551

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9780415658553

The Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation

By: Ang Cheng Guan

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The Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation

By: Ang Cheng Guan

A History of the Manila Pact and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) from its establishment in 1954 until its dissolution in 1977. The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) has received meagre scholarly attention in comparison to other key events and global developments during the duration of the Cold War, due to its perceived failure early in its existence. However, there has been a renewed interest in the academic study of the organization. Some scholars have argued that SEATO was not an outright failure. New literatures have also shed in detail the workings of SEATO, such as operational-level contingency plans and counter-insurgency plans. This book aims to reconstruct a comprehensive life cycle of SEATO using declassified archival documents which were unavailable to scholars studying the organization from the 1950s through the 1980s and provide a nuanced assessment of it. In addition, in recent years, there is also an emerging interest in the possibility of a multilateral military alliance in Asia, for instance the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue morphing into an "Asian NATO". As such, it is therefore crucial to study how previous multilateral alliances in the context of Asia were formed, how they functioned, and subsequently dissolved. A groundbreaking reference on a key element of the United States’ Cold War strategy in Asia, which will be a valuable resource to scholars of twentieth century diplomatic history.

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178

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Routledge

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1000440087

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9781000440089

Southeast Asia’s Cold War

An Interpretive History

By: Ang Cheng Guan

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Southeast Asia’s Cold War

An Interpretive History

By: Ang Cheng Guan

The historiography of the Cold War has long been dominated by American motivations and concerns, with Southeast Asian perspectives largely confined to the Indochina wars and Indonesia under Sukarno. Southeast Asia’s Cold War corrects this situation by examining the international politics of the region from within rather than without. It provides an up-to-date, coherent narrative of the Cold War as it played out in Southeast Asia against a backdrop of superpower rivalry. When viewed through a Southeast Asian lens, the Cold War can be traced back to the interwar years and antagonisms between indigenous communists and their opponents, the colonial governments and their later successors. Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and the Philippines join Vietnam and Indonesia as key regional players with their own agendas, as evidenced by the formation of SEATO and the Bandung conference. The threat of global Communism orchestrated from Moscow, which had such a powerful hold in the West, passed largely unnoticed in Southeast Asia, where ideology took a back seat to regime preservation. China and its evolving attitude toward the region proved far more compelling: the emergence of the communist government there in 1949 helped further the development of communist networks in the Southeast Asian region. Except in Vietnam, the Soviet Union’s role was peripheral: managing relationships with the United States and China was what preoccupied Southeast Asia’s leaders. The impact of the Sino-Soviet split is visible in the decade-long Cambodian conflict and the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979. This succinct volume not only demonstrates the complexity of the region, but for the first time provides a narrative that places decolonization and nation-building alongside the usual geopolitical conflicts. It focuses on local actors and marshals a wide range of literature in support of its argument. Most importantly, it tells us how and why the Cold War in Southeast Asia evolved the way it did and offers a deeper understanding of the Southeast Asia we know today.

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322

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824873467

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9780824873462

Reassessing Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought

By: Ang Cheng Guan

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Reassessing Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought

By: Ang Cheng Guan

Building on the author’s 2012 book, Lee Kuan Yew’s Strategic Thought, this new book presents a comprehensive overview of Lee Kuan Yew’s strategic thought over the course of his entire life. It analyses the factors underlying Lee Kuan Yew’s thinking, discusses his own writings and speeches, and shows how his thinking on foreign policy, security and international relations evolved. It also appraises writing about Lee Kuan Yew and memorialisation of him, assessing how views of his legacy have changed and continue to change.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000846636

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9781000846638

Vietnamese Communists' Relations with China and the Second Indochina Conflict, 1956-1962

By: Cheng Guan Ang

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Vietnamese Communists' Relations with China and the Second Indochina Conflict, 1956-1962

By: Cheng Guan Ang

According to the final declaration of the 1954 Geneva Conference regarding Vietnam, general elections were to be held in July 1956 that would lead to the reunification of North and South Vietnam. The Geneva Agreement, however, was doomed from the start, as the South Vietnamese leaders did not suscribe to it and the leaders of the Communist North saw its value as primarily a propaganda tool. By 1956 it was obvious to all that reunification in accordance with the agreement was impossible, and the North Vietnamese looked to China for advice and assistance. Based on Vietnamese, Chinese, American and British sources--many only recently made available--this work examines Sino-Vietnamese relations in the early stages of the second Indochina conflict. The progression of the Vietnamese Communists' goals from primarily political to essentially military is traced. The book shows that the Hanoi government was remarkably in control of its own decision-making.

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336

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McFarland

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0786404043

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9780786404049

Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War

By: Cheng Guan Ang

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Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War

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Considers how the other countries of southeast Asia were affected by Vietnam War and how they reacted to it. This title explains the differing responses - Thailand and the Philippines both contributed militarily to the US war effort, whilst Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore were non-aligned.

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Routledge

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1135238375

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9781135238377

Eating Together

Food, Space, and Identity in Malaysia and Singapore

By: Jean Duruz,Gaik Cheng Khoo

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Eating Together

Food, Space, and Identity in Malaysia and Singapore

By: Jean Duruz,Gaik Cheng Khoo

Accepting the challenge of rethinking connections of food, space and identity within everyday spaces of “public” eating in Malaysia and Singapore, the authors enter street stalls, hawker centers, markets, cafes, restaurants, “food streets,” and “ethnic” neighborhoods to offer a broader picture of the meaning of eating in public places. The book creates a strong sense of the ways different people live, eat, work, and relax together, and traces negotiations and accommodations in these dynamics. The motif of rojak (Malay, meaning “mixture”), together with Ien Ang’s evocative “together-in-difference,” enables the analysis to move beyond the immediacy of street eating with its moments of exchange and remembering. Ultimately, the book traces the political tensions of “different” people living together, and the search for home and identity in a world on the move. Each of the chapters designates a different space for exploring these cultures of “mixedness” and their contradictions—whether these involve “old” and “new” forms of sociality, struggles over meanings of place, or frissons of pleasure and risk in eating “differently.” Simply put, Eating Together is about understanding complex forms of multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore through the mind, tongue, nose, and eyes.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442227419

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9781442227415

Vietnamese Communists' Relations with China and the Second Indochina Conflict, 1956-1962

By: Cheng Guan Ang

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Vietnamese Communists' Relations with China and the Second Indochina Conflict, 1956-1962

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McFarland

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0786404043

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Singapore, ASEAN and the Cambodian Conflict 1978-1991

By: Ang Cheng Guan

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Singapore, ASEAN and the Cambodian Conflict 1978-1991

By: Ang Cheng Guan

This important study of the shifting diplomatic efforts around the response to and resolution of the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia is based on the records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore, a key player in the complex diplomacy in the region at the end of the Cold War. The study provides a detailed account of the policies and decision-making of Singapore, as well as the diplomatic maneuverings of the other major parties and powers involved in the Cambodia conflict. It details one member country's input into the process of defining and developing a collective ASEAN position, a process which was formative for future diplomatic efforts by the regional grouping. Ang makes use of a variety of sources contemporary to the period under study, as well as records which have become available post-1991. The use of detailed records from one of the Southeast Asian players is a first for the study of the region's diplomacy. The book describes Singapore's role and illustrate how Singapore's management of the Cambodian issue was shaped by the fundamentals of Singapore's foreign policy. The account also reveals the dynamics of intra-ASEAN relations, as well as ASEAN's foreign relations in the context of the Cambodia problem.

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NUS Press

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9971697041

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9789971697044

The Vietnam War from the Other Side

By: Cheng Guan Ang

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The Vietnam War from the Other Side

By: Cheng Guan Ang

Existing studies of the Vietnam War have been written mostly from an American perspective, using western sources, and viewing the conflict through western eyes. This book, based on extensive original research, including Vietnamese, Chinese and former Soviet sources, presents a history of the war from the perspective of the Vietnamese communists. It charts relations with Moscow and Beijing, showing how the involvement of the two major communist powers changed over time, and how the Vietnamese, despite their huge dependence on the Chinese and the Soviets, were most definitely in charge of their own decision making. Overall, it provides an important corrective to the many one-sided studies of the war, and presents a very interesting new perspective.

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1136869816

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Book's by Cheng Guan Ang

Ending the Vietnam War

Ending the Vietnam War

Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought

Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought

The Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation

The Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation

Southeast Asia’s Cold War

Southeast Asia’s Cold War

Reassessing Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought

Reassessing Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought

Vietnamese Communists' Relations with China and the Second Indochina Conflict, 1956-1962

Vietnamese Communists' Relations with China and the Second Indochina Conflict, 1956-1962

Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War

Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War

Eating Together

Eating Together

Vietnamese Communists' Relations with China and the Second Indochina Conflict, 1956-1962

Vietnamese Communists' Relations with China and the Second Indochina Conflict, 1956-1962

Singapore, ASEAN and the Cambodian Conflict 1978-1991

Singapore, ASEAN and the Cambodian Conflict 1978-1991

The Vietnam War from the Other Side

The Vietnam War from the Other Side

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