A Wide Anticommunist Arc”
Britain, Asean, and Nixon’s Triangular Diplomacy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16530461 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wen-Qing Ngoei (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 903-932 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diplomatic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-2096 • E-ISSN: 1467-7709 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/dh/dhx033 |
| OpenAlex | W2602340398 |
| Language | EN |
President Richard Nixon’s triangular diplomacy succeeded because a “wide anticommunist arc” of U.S. allies in Southeast Asia had confined the influence of both China and the USSR to the Indochinese states. Beijing and Moscow welcomed détente with Washington in order to accommodate to de facto U.S. hegemony in the region.
Beijing · China · De facto · Diplomacy · Economic history · Hegemony · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |