MCMAHON Robert J <br/><br/>
The limits of empire:  the United States and Southeast Asia since World War II 

 - New York:  Columbia University Press,  1999 
 - 276p. 
<br/><br/> Study of US involvement in Southeast Asia as a form of empire building in which strategic importance was exaggerated resulting in dangerous overstretch for the USA. Notes that since the Vietnam war American involvement in the region has been shaped more by commercial interests than national security imperatives. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0231108818 (pbk.):  17.50 US 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>REGIONAL SECURITY<br/>SOUTHEAST ASIA<br/>UNITED STATES