America's Strategy in Southeast Asia From Cold War to Terror War

by Tyner, James A.

• ISBN13: 9780742553583
• ISBN10: 0742553582
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-20
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Since the end of the Second World War, Southeast Asia has served as a surrogate space to further American imperial interests, which are economic, political, territorial, and moral in scope. America's Strategy in Southeast Asia contends that the construction of Southeast Asia as a geographic entity has been a crucial component in the creation of the American empire. America's most blatant experience of colonial rule, for example, occurred in Southeast Asia (in the Philippines). America's longest war was fought in Southeast Asia (in Vietnam). And most recently, Southeast Asia has been identified by some American policy makers, rightly or wrongly, as the Second Front in the War on Terror. And yet, what has been America's overriding strategy in Southeast Asia? And why has a region that figures so prominently in American foreign policy remained something of a mystery for the American populacea black box in America's geographical imagination? This clear and innovative book answers these questions and educates readers about Southeast Asia's importance in American foreign policy.

Author Biography

James A. Tyner is associate professor in the Department of Geography at Kent State University

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
Geographic Imperatives	p. 1
A Model Empire in Asia	p. 27
Peasant Wars and Imperial Capitalism	p. 67
The Tragedy of Geographic Negligence	p. 99
The Neoconservative Making of Southeast Asia	p. 159
The Guilt of Colonialism	p. 213
Selected Bibliography	p. 223
Index	p. 233
About the Author	p. 241
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