“[it is] a solid, timely and very accessible contemporary history of Southeast Asia’s international relations...this book will undoubtedly find its way on to plenty of graduate and undergraduate reading lists, including as a core text for courses on the international relations of Southeast Asia.”

 

Contemporary Southeast Asia

"...useful as a concise narrative of ASEAN [Associations of Southeast Asian Nations] in the 21st century."

Choice

“Ang’s book can be recommended as a crisply written, refreshingly bold and highly original contribution. It will be a vital point of reference for international historians of postcolonial Southeast Asia.”

H-Diplo

“Contemporary history is, in many ways, one of the more difficult tasks for the historian… It is quite the tightrope to navigate and Ang Cheng Guan does so deftly in Southeast Asia after the Cold War… With its concise, readable prose, it makes a worthy follow-up to his work on the Cold War and is a sound contribution on global contemporary history.”

Matthew Jagel | SOJOURN

“Ang Cheng Guan’s book, which details the years after the Cold War and the shaping of Southeast Asia to where it is today, is very useful for understanding the main drivers and limitations of the region’s responses to the great powers… [this book] makes for a useful, if not essential, point of reference for policy makers and scholars of the present period.”

Huong Le Thu | Pacific Affairs Journal