Connecting Histories: Decolonization and the Cold War in Southeast Asiadraws on newly available archival documentation from both Western and Asian countries to explore decolonization, the Cold War, and the establishment of a new international order in post-World War II Southeast Asia. Major historical forces intersected hereof power, politics, economics, and cultureon trajectories East to West, North to South, across the South itself, and along less defined tracks. Especially important, democratic-communist competitions sought the loyalties of Southeast Asian nationalists, even as some colonial powers sought to resume their prewar dominance. These intersections are the focus of the contributions to this book, which use new sources and approaches to examine some of the most important historical trajectories of the twentieth century in Burma, Vietnam, Malaysia, and a number of other countries.

Christopher E. Goscha is Associate Professor of History at the University of Québec at Montreal. Christian Ostermann directs the Woodrow Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program. Contributors come from Canada, France, Malaysia, Russia, the Philippines, Singapore, the U.S., and the U.K.

Foreword
Introduction: Connecting Decolonization and the Cold War in Southeast Asia	p. 1
Western Trajectories into Southeast Asia
Recasting Vietnam: The Bao Dai Solution and the Outbreak of the Cold War in Southeast Asia	p. 15
Containment and the Challenge of Non-Alignment: The Cold War and U.S. Policy toward Indonesia, 1950-1952	p. 39
Avoiding the "Rank of Denmark": Dutch Fears about Loss of Empire in Southeast Asia	p. 68
Processing Decolonization: British Strategic Analysis of Conflict in Vietnam and Indonesia, 1945-1950	p. 84
Internationalist Communist Intersections in the Region
Soviet Cold War Strategy and Prospects of Revolution in South and Southeast Asia	p. 123
Bridging Revolution and Decolonization: The "Bandung Discourse" in China's Early Cold War Experience	p. 137
From Cheering to Volunteering: Vietnamese Communists and the Coming of the Cold War, 1940-1951	p. 172
Southeast Asian Alignment and Non-Alignment
Choosing between the Two Vietnams: 1950 and Southeast Asian Shifts in the International System	p. 207
Indonesia's Diplomatic Revolution: Lining Up for Non-Alignment, 1945-1955	p. 238
Malaysia during the Early Cold War Era: The War in Indochina and Malaya, 1946-1963	p. 258
Phibun, the Cold War, and Thailand's Foreign Policy Revolution of 1950	p. 275
Southeast Asian Perceptions of the Domino Theory	p. 301
Cultural Connections: Religion, Society, and Civilization
Ludu Aung Than: Nu's Burma during the Cold War	p. 335
Lawan dan kawan (Friends and Foes): Indonesian Islam and Communism during the Cold War (1945-1960)	p. 356
The Diplomacy of Personalism: Civilization, Culture, and the Cold War in the Foreign Policy of Ngo Dinh Diem	p. 376
Bibliography	p. 403
Contributors	p. 427
Index	p. 433
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