1st Edition

Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War

By Cheng Guan Ang Copyright 2010
144 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This book describes and explains Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore’s attitudes and policies regarding the Vietnam War. While it is generally known that all three countries supported the US war effort in Vietnam, it reveals the motivations behind the decisions of the decision makers, the twists and turns and the nuances in the attitudes of Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore following the... Read more

Introduction.  Chapter 1: Background.  Chapter 2: 1965-1966: Attitude towards the war – the early years.  Chapter 3: 1967: Growing doubts about the United States in Vietnam.  Chapter 4: 1968-1970: The impact of the Tet Offensive.  Chapter 5: The Jakarta Conference.  Chapter 6: 1971-1974: Attitude towards Sino-US rapprochement and the Paris Peace Agreements.  Chapter 7: 1975: The Vietnam Ends. 

Biography

Ang Cheng Guan is Associate Professor and Head, Humanities and Social Studies Education Academic Group of the National Institute of Education (HSSE/NIE) and Adjunct Senior Fellow of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. He is the author of Vietnamese Communist Relations with China and the Second Indo-China Conflict, 1956-1962 (1997), The Vietnam War from the Other Side: The Vietnamese Communists' Perspective (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002) and the sequel, Ending the Vietnam War: The Vietnamese Communists’ Perspective (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004).

'The author makes a valuable contribution to understanding the evolving relationships between the countries of Southeast Asia and the United States, especially in the ten year period from 1965 to 1975.' - Haydon Cherry, Yale University, New Mandala, 2010