Vietnam's Strategic Thinking during the Third Indochina War Hardback
by Kosal Path
Part of the New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies series
Hardback
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When costly efforts to cement a strategic partnership with the Soviet Union failed, the combined political pressure of economic crisis at home and imminent external threats posed by a Sino-Cambodian alliance compelled Hanoi to reverse course.
Moving away from the Marxist-Leninist ideology that had prevailed during the last decade of the Cold War era, the Vietnamese government implemented broad doi moi ("renovation") reforms intended to create a peaceful regional environment for the country's integration into the global economy. In contrast to earlier studies, Path traces the moving target of these changing policy priorities, providing a vital addition to existing scholarship on asymmetric wartime decision-making and alliance formation among small states.
The result uncovers how this critical period had lasting implications for the ways Vietnam continues to conduct itself on the global stage.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:312 pages, 5 black & white illustrations
- Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2020
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- ISBN:9780299322700
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:312 pages, 5 black & white illustrations
- Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780299322700
