
Friday Forum: Wen-Qing Ngoei – “Empire of Dominoes: Britain, Southeast Asian Anticommunism and U.S. Hegemony”
April 19 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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.