Foreword / Nayan Chanda -- I. Western trajectories into Southeast Asia. Recasting Vietnam: the Bao Dai Solution and the outbreak of the Cold War in Southeast Asia / Mark Atwood Lawrence ; Containment and the challenge of non-alignment: the Cold War and US policy toward Indonesia, 1950-1952 / Richard Mason ; Avoiding the "rank of Denmark": Dutch fears about loss of empire in Southeast Asia / Anne L. Foster ; Processing decolonization: British strategic analysis of conflict in Vietnam and Indonesia, 1945-1950 / Martin Thomas -- II. Internationalist Communist intersections in the region. Soviet Cold War strategy and prospects of revolution in South and Southeast Asia / Ilya V. Gaiduk ; Bridging revolution and decolonization: the "Bandung discourse" in China's early Cold War experience / Chen Jian ; From cheering to volunteering: Vietnamese communists and the coming of the Cold War, 1940-1951 / Tuong Vu -- III. Southeast Asian alignment and non-alignment. Choosing between the two Vietnams: 1950 and Southeast Asian shifts in the international system / Christopher E. Goscha ; Indonesia's diplomatic revolution: lining up for non-alignment, 1945-1955 / Samuel E. Crowl ; Malaysia during the early Cold War era: the war in Indochina and Malaya, 1946-1963 / Danny Wong Tze Ken ; Phibun, the Cold War, and Thailand's foreign policy revolution of 1950 / Daniel Fineman ; Southeast Asian perceptions of the Domino theory / Ang Cheng Guan -- IV. Cultural connections: religion, society, and civilization. Ludu Aung Than: Nu's Burma during the Cold War / Michael W. Charney ; Lawan dan kawan (friends and foes): Indonesian Islam and communism during the Cold War (1945-1960) / Rémy Madinier ; The diplomacy of personalism: civilization, culture, and the Cold War in the foreign policy of Ngo Dinh Diem / Edward Miller.