Kosal Path: Vietnam's Strategic Thinking during the Third Indochina War
Vietnam's Strategic Thinking during the Third Indochina War
Buch
- University of Wisconsin Press, 07/2023
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780299322748
- Bestellnummer: 11462886
- Umfang: 308 Seiten
- Gewicht: 449 g
- Maße: 229 x 152 mm
- Stärke: 23 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 25.7.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
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.