TY  - BOOK
AU  - MCMAHON Robert J
TI  - The limits of empire: the United States and Southeast Asia since World War II
SN  - 0231108818 (pbk.):
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - REGIONAL SECURITY
KW  - SOUTHEAST ASIA
KW  - UNITED STATES
N2  - 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
ER  -