Friday Forum: Wen-Qing Ngoei – “Empire of Dominoes: Britain, Southeast Asian Anticommunism and U.S. Hegemony”

Empire of Dominoes:
Britain, Southeast Asian Anticommunism and U.S. Hegemony

Wen-Qing Ngoei
Assistant Professor of History
Nanyang Technological University

The talk will analyze how British decolonization strategies intertwined with anticommunist nationalism in Malaya and Singapore have shaped US Cold War policy toward Vietnam and Southeast Asia.