Questions

1. What is the meaning of the term "empire" he uses in this book.

How do we understand the term in relation with the US policy changes in SEA and in the context of pre-war imperialism and post-war situations?

Now, we can say the US is not an empire in Southeast and Northeast Asia?

If we cannot call the US an empire in the region, what factors and changes made that difference?

Were there any fundamental differences in the role of the US between the two times when it is was an empire and when it was not an empire in the context of SEA history?

Where was the US empire in SEA? Which South East Asian country can we call the part of the US empire?

2. If we put gender issues on this history? This history would be interpreted differently?

Sociopsychological factor that heavily infuenced the US policy makers can be seen as a jingoes' passion for manhood?

Should we just interpret the US policies which governed SEA as a way to build a defensive empire which was the product of America's fears?(221)