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TThis is an announcement to invite you to the CSEAS Colloquium for September 2016.<\/p>\nTThis is an announcement to invite you to the CSEAS Colloquium for September 2016.<\/p>\n
Date & Time:<\/strong> Thursday, September 29, 2016, 16:00-17:30<\/p>\n Place:<\/strong> Middle-sized Meeting Room (No. 332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Title:<\/strong> Players from Within, Actors from Without the Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1947-1991<\/p>\n Speaker:<\/strong> Dr. OOI Keat Gin Abstract:<\/strong> Biodata:<\/strong> <\/p>\n
\nFoundation Building, Kyoto University<\/p>\n
\nProfessor of history and coordinator of the Asia Pacific Research Unit(APRU-USM)
\nin the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia<\/p>\n
\nEven before the dust had cleared from the disastrous and tragic Second
\nWorld War (1939-1945), the world descended into a power struggle between
\ntwo colossus one-time allies each with their respective supporters and
\nsympathizers. Commonly referred to as the Cold War, it witnessed the
\npitting and posturing of the US and the USSR, each vying for global
\nhegemony in sourcing allies and clients in the post-war environment. In
\nSoutheast Asia the Cold War undoubtedly had influences and impacts. The
\ntempting question, however, is what ways did the US-USSR struggle
\nimpacted directly or indirectly on the region\u2019s individual emerging
\nnation-states and across the region as a whole. The case of Vietnam
\nperhaps presented a clear-cut example. At the same time what was the
\nrole and, in turn, the influence, of the People\u2019s Republic of China
\n(the dubbed \u201cRed China\u201d) in Southeast Asia during this tense Cold War
\nperiod. But more importantly the primary curiosity is, as the title
\nsuggests, did developments and events in the various countries in the
\nregion dictated and\/or a consequent of the actions of local players, or
\na result of the intervention, influence, direction from afar, notably
\nWashington, Moscow, or Beijing. In other words, were local situations,
\nconditions, and personalities the driving force from within, or the
\ndictates of colossal powers from without the main determinant of
\ndevelopments? For instance, did the military coup of 1962 and the
\nisolationist stance thereafter of then Burma (present-day Myanmar) a
\nconsequence of the decisions and actions of local agents (General New
\nWin and the military elite), or the result of pressure, influence, or
\neven directive from Beijing or Moscow, or perhaps, Washington? Likewise,
\nthe Malayan Emergency (1948-1960, 1968-1989), the creation of the wider
\nfederation of \u201cMalaysia\u201d (1963), the fall of Sukarno (1965), Thailand
\n\u2019s rather ambiguous position during this period, or developments in the
\nPhilippines, Laos and Cambodia. This present overview across Southeast
\nAsia offers an historical examination in ascertaining the \u201cplayers\u201d
\nand \u201cactors\u201d, from within or from without the region, and to some
\nextent determine the impact of their actions in the post-Cold War
\nscenario.<\/p>\n
\nOOI Keat Gin is an award-winning author, professor of history
\nand coordinator of the Asia Pacific Research Unit (APRU-USM) in the
\nSchool of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
\nSignificant related book-length works include Post-war Borneo, 1945-
\n1950: Nationalism, Empire, and State-building (Routledge, 2013), The
\nJapanese Occupation of Borneo (Routledge, 2011), Traumas and Heroism
\n(Opus, 2007), Rising Sun over Borneo: The Japanese Occupation of Sarawak,
\n1941-1945 (Macmillan, 1999), and Japanese Empire in the Tropics, 2 vols.
\n(Ohio, 1998). Recent edited volumes are Brunei – History, Islam, Society,
\nand Contemporary Issues (Routledge, 2016), and (with Hoang Anh Tuan)
\nEarly Modern Southeast Asia, 1350-1800 (Routledge, 2016). Elected (since
\n1996) as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (London), he is
\nfounder-editor-in-chief of International Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
\n(IJAPS) (www.usm.my\/ijaps\/<\/a>), and series editor of the Asia-Pacific
\nStudies Publication Series (AAPSPS) under the auspices of APRU and
\nUniversiti Sains Malaysia Press. Currently he is working on a manuscript
\ntitled \u201cThe Cold War in Borneo, 1950-1990\u201d (Routledge).<\/p>\n