Vietnam's Strategic Thinking during the Third Indochina War

von Kosal Path

308 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: University of Wisconsin Press
• ISBN: 9780299322700
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.02.2020
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press