Connecting Histories: Decolonization and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1945-1962Connecting Histories: Decolonization and the Cold War in Southeast Asia draws on newly available archival documentation from both Western and Asian countries to explore decolonization, the Cold War, and the establishment of a new international order in post World War II Southeast Asia. Major historical forces intersected here of power, politics, economics, and culture on trajectories East to West, North to South, across the South itself, and along