Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1.: Introduction -- 2.: The origins of the Cold War in Southeast Asia: the case of VIETNAM -- 3.: The communist insurgency in MALAYSIA, 1948-1989: was it due to the Cold War? -- 4.: The PHILIPPINES during the Cold War: searching for security guarantees and appropriate foreign policies, 1946-1986 -- 5.: Alphabet soup and nuclear war: SEATO, China and the Cold War in Southeast Asia -- 6.: The Cold War and the making of SINGAPORE -- 7.: THAILAND and the secret war in LAOS: the origins of engagement -- 8.: The fate of neutralism in CAMBODIA and LAOS -- 9.: Before the quagmire: the US ARMY and Southeast Asia -- 10.: What's in it for us? Rethinking the British defence commitment to SINGAPORE and MALAYSIA from Macmillan to Wilson -- 11.: Beneficiary of the Cold War: Soeharto and the 'New Order' in INDONESIA, 1966-1990 -- 12.: The Cold War in hindsight: local realities and the limits of global power -- Select bibliography -- Notes on the authors -- Index.