TY  - BOOK
AU  - Liow,Joseph Chinyong
TI  - Ambivalent Engagement: The United States and Regional Security in Southeast Asia after the Cold War
T2  - Geopolitics in the 21st Century Series
SN  - 9780815729686
AV  - DS525.9.U6 .L569 2017 
U1  - 355.0330959 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Brookings Institution Press
KW  - National security-United States
KW  - United States-Foreign relations-Southeast Asia
KW  - Southeast Asia-Foreign relations-United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Ambivalent Engagement? -- Sources of Anxiety -- Engagement and Estrangement -- Global Terrorism's "Second Front -- Missed Opportunities -- The "Pivot" and Southeast Asia -- Piecemeal Progress -- The United States in Southeast Asia: Prospect and Retrospect -- Policy Considerations and Recommendations -- Appendix:  Congressional Bills Involving Southeast Asia (1993-2016) -- Notes -- Index -- Back Flap -- Back Cover
N2  - The paradox of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia   Ambivalent Engagement highlights a dilemma that is becoming increasingly conspicuous and problematic. Southeast Asia continues to rely on the United States to play an active role in the region even though it is an external power. But the countries of Southeast Asia have very different views about precisely what role the United States should play. The consequences of this ambivalence will grow in importance with the expanding role of yet another outside power, China
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