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Author : Ralph Bernard Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780312422059
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Revolution Versus Containment, 1955-61 written by Ralph Bernard Smith and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Bernard Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780312422097
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Revolution Versus Containment, 1955-61 written by Ralph Bernard Smith and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Bernard Smith
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312422059
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)
Download or read book An International History of the Vietnam War: Revolution versus containment, 1955-61 written by Ralph Bernard Smith and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1983 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the impact of international politics on the Vietnam War during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and attempts to explain the failure of United States policy there
Author : R B Smith
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333436448
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (364 download)
Download or read book An International History of the Vietnam War written by R B Smith and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1987-06-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most previous books on the Vietnam War have seen it primarily as an American military involvement in the affairs of a small Asian country halfway across the world. The present study, planned to run to four volumes, seeks to reassess the significance of the conflict by looking at Vietnam as one element in a global power game. It is also the first serious attempt to analyse the decision-making of both sides simultaneously, relating United States policy to the strategy and tactics of the Communist side - and to the complicated relations that existed between Hanoi, Moscow and Peking. 'It has always been hard not to be emotional about the subject, in one direction or another. Mr Smith must be praised for having produced a book which does not indulge the emotion he undoubtedly feels. His international history of the Vietnam war is calm, concise, excellent and invaluable' - William Shawcross, THES
Author : Ralph Bernard Smith
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312422097
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)
Download or read book An International History of the Vietnam War: The Kennedy strategy written by Ralph Bernard Smith and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1983 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the impact of international politics on the Vietnam War during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and attempts to explain the failure of United States policy there
Author : Cheng Guan Ang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136869816
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book The Vietnam War from the Other Side written by Cheng Guan Ang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existing studies of the Vietnam War have been written mostly from an American perspective, using western sources, and viewing the conflict through western eyes. This book, based on extensive original research, including Vietnamese, Chinese and former Soviet sources, presents a history of the war from the perspective of the Vietnamese communists. It charts relations with Moscow and Beijing, showing how the involvement of the two major communist powers changed over time, and how the Vietnamese, despite their huge dependence on the Chinese and the Soviets, were most definitely in charge of their own decision making. Overall, it provides an important corrective to the many one-sided studies of the war, and presents a very interesting new perspective.
Author : Mari Olsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134174128
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Soviet-Vietnam Relations and the Role of China 1949-64 written by Mari Olsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book analyzes how the Soviet leadership evaluated developments in Soviet-Vietnamese relations in the years from 1949 to 1964. Focusing on how Soviet leaders actually perceived China’s role in Vietnam relative to the Soviet role, it shows how these perceptions influenced the Soviet-Vietnamese relationship. It also explains how and when Moscow’s enthusiasm for the active Chinese role in Vietnam came to an end – or, in other words, from what point was Beijing’s involvement in Vietnam perceived as a liability rather than an asset, in the strategies of Soviet policy makers. This book is an excellent resource for all students with an interest in Soviet-Vietnamese relations and of strategic studies and international relations in general.
Author : Matthew Foley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135180830
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book The Cold War and National Assertion in Southeast Asia written by Matthew Foley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a detailed case study of post-colonial transition in Asia in the context of the emerging Cold War; it charts British and American approaches to Burma between the country’s independence from the United Kingdom in 1948 and the military coup that ended civilian government in 1962.
Author : Jessica Elkind
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813167167
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Aid Under Fire written by Jessica Elkind and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of World War II, as longstanding empires collapsed and former colonies struggled for independence, the United States employed new diplomatic tools to counter unprecedented challenges to its interests across the globe. Among the most important new foreign policy strategies was development assistance -- the attempt to strengthen alliances by providing technology, financial aid, and administrators to fledgling states in order to disseminate and inculcate American values and practices in local populations. While the US implemented development programs in several nations, nowhere were these policies more significant than in Vietnam. In Aid Under Fire, Jessica Elkind examines US nation-building efforts in the fledgling South Vietnamese state during the decade preceding the full-scale ground war. Based on American and Vietnamese archival sources as well as on interviews with numerous aid workers, this study vividly demonstrates how civilians from the official US aid agency as well as several nongovernmental organizations implemented nearly every component of nonmilitary assistance given to South Vietnam during this period, including public and police administration, agricultural development, education, and public health. However, despite the sincerity of American efforts, most Vietnamese citizens understood US-sponsored programs to be little more than a continuation of previous attempts by foreign powers to dominate their homeland. Elkind convincingly argues that, instead of reexamining their core assumptions or altering their approach as the violence in the region escalated, US policymakers and aid workers only strengthened their commitment to nation building, increasingly modifying their development goals to support counterinsurgency efforts. Aid Under Fire highlights the important role played by nonstate actors in advancing US policies and reveals in stark terms the limits of American power and influence during the period widely considered to be the apex of US supremacy in the world.
Author : Ilya V. Gaiduk
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804747127
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Confronting Vietnam written by Ilya V. Gaiduk and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive research in the Russian archives, this book examines the Soviet approach to the Vietnam conflict between the 1954 Geneva conference on Indochina and late 1963, when the overthrow of the South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem and the assassination of John F. Kennedy radically transformed the conflict. The author finds that the USSR attributed no geostrategic importance to Indochina and did not want the crisis there to disrupt détente. The Russians had high hopes that the Geneva accords would bring years of peace in the region. Gradually disillusioned, they tried to strengthen North Vietnam, but would not support unification of North and South. By the early 1960s, however, they felt obliged to counter the American embrace of an aggressively anti-Communist regime in South Vietnam and the hostility of its former ally, the People's Republic of China. Finally, Moscow decided to disengage from Vietnam, disappointed that its efforts to avert an international crisis there had failed.
Author : Kathryn C. Statler
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813137322
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Replacing France written by Kathryn C. Statler and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2007-06-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using recently released archival materials from the United States and Europe, Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam explains how and why the United States came to assume control as the dominant western power in Vietnam during the 1950s. Acting on their conviction that American methods had a better chance of building a stable, noncommunist South Vietnamese nation, Eisenhower administration officials systematically ejected French military, economic, political, bureaucratic, and cultural institutions from Vietnam. Kathryn C. Statler examines diplomatic maneuvers in Paris, Washington, London, and Saigon to detail how Western alliance members sought to transform South Vietnam into a modern, westernized, and democratic ally but ultimately failed to counter the Communist threat. Abetted by South Vietnamese prime minister Ngo Dinh Diem, Americans in Washington, D.C., and Saigon undermined their French counterparts at every turn, resulting in the disappearance of a French presence by the time Kennedy assumed office. Although the United States ultimately replaced France in South Vietnam, efforts to build South Vietnam into a nation failed. Instead, it became a dependent client state that was unable to withstand increasing Communist aggression from the North. Replacing France is a fundamental reassessment of the origins of U.S. involvement in Vietnam that explains how Franco-American conflict led the United States to pursue a unilateral and ultimately imperialist policy in Vietnam.
Author : David L. Anderson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231515337
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Trapped by Success written by David L. Anderson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eisenhower Administration developed and implemented policies in Southeast Asia that contributed directly to the massive American military involvement in Vietnam in the decade after Dwight Eisenhower left office. Working with the most recently declassified government records on U.S. policy in Vietnam in the 1950s, David L. Anderson asserts that the Eisenhower Administration was less successful in Vietnam than the revisionists suggests.Trapped By Success is the first systematic study of the entire eight years of the Eisenhower Administration's efforts to build a nation in South Vietnam in order to protect U.S. global interests. Proclaiming success, where, in fact, failure abounded, the Eisenhower Administration trapped itself and its successors into a commitment to the survival of its own frail creation in Indochina. The book is a chronicle of clandestine plots, bureaucratic fights, cultural and strategic mistakes, and missed opportunities. Anderson examines the politicla environments in Saigon and Washington that contributed to the deepening of American involvement. Contrary to other studies that highlight Eisenhower's restraint in preventing French collapse in Indochina in 1954,Trapped By Success shows how the administration publicly applauded South Veitnam's survival and growing stability, while it was actually producing an almost totally dependent regime that would ultimately consume billions of American dollars and thousands of American lives.
Author : Adam Fforde
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429710941
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book From Plan To Market written by Adam Fforde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clear and accessible text explores Vietnam's successful transition from neo-Stalinist central planning to a market economy—\"Vietnamese style.\" After describing the north Vietnamese system prior to 1975 and its colonial and precolonial antecedents, the authors uncover the mechanisms of that changeover. They contend that the Vietnamese transition was largely bottom-up in character and that it evolved over a long enough period for the country's political economy to adjust. This explains in part the rapid shift to a high-growth, externally oriented development path in the early 1990s, despite the loss of Soviet aid and the lack of significant Western substitutes until 1992-1993. Based upon extensive incountry experience, a wealth of primary materials, and wide comparative knowledge of development issues, the book challenges many preconceived notions, both about Vietnam and about the general nature of transition processes.
Author : William Rosenau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113420065X
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book US Internal Security Assistance to South Vietnam written by William Rosenau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study of American support to the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam illuminates many contemporary events and foreign policies. During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, the United States used foreign police and paramilitary assistance to combat the spread of communist revolution in the developing world. This became the single largest internal security programme during the neglected 1955-1963 period. Yet despite presidential attention and a sustained campaign to transform Diem’s police and paramilitary forces into modern, professional services, the United States failed to achieve its objectives. Given the scale of its efforts, and the Diem regime’s importance to the US leadership, this text identifies the three key factors that contributed to the failure of American policy. First, the competing conceptions of Diem’s civilian and military advisers. Second, the reforms advanced by US police training personnel were also at odds with the political agenda of the South Vietnamese leader. Finally, the flawed beliefs among US police advisers based on the universality of American democracy. This study also shows how notions borrowed from academic social science of the time became the basis for building Diem’s internal security forces. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of intelligence studies, Cold War studies, security studies, US foreign policy and the Vietnam War in general.
Author : Peter Lowe
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719025082
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Containing the Cold War in East Asia written by Peter Lowe and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the transitional years during which Britain's vital role in the formulation of Western policies declined markedly, and that simultaneously marked the take-off period of the Cold War. Covers the communist victory in China, the conclusion of the allied occupation of Japan with the restoration of sovereignty to the Japanese state, and the Korean War. Addresses Anglo-American relations and the strains caused by the differing attitudes of the two countries towards East Asia, suggesting that while Great Britain did not determine Western policies in East Asia, it did exert moderating influence on the US on significant occasions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Nông Văn Dân
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857288431
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Churchill, Eden and Indo-China, 1951-1955 written by Nông Văn Dân and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Churchill, Eden and Indo-China, 1951-1955’ offers a systematic approach to pertinent international politics, providing a historiography and assessing the impact of events such as the Cold War and the Second World War within the context of the governments of Churchill and Eden. Revisiting Churchill's wartime helmsmanship in order to shed further light on his post-war administration, Nông Dân provides a greater historical awareness of the broad international context of decolonized Indo-China and South East Asia.
Author : Nigel Thrift
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113567891X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book The Price of War written by Nigel Thrift and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much rare material is incorporated in this unique account of urbanization in a developing country that was ravaged by war for twenty years. With due emphasis on the experience of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), the authors present an account of what happened to the towns and cities of Vietnam between the establishment of Ho Chi Minh's socialist state in 1954 and the mid 1980s. The story is introduced through a general theoretical and empirical account of urbanization in socialist Third World countries. The book stresses the importance of the turmoil created by warfare in directing urbanization, but it also refers to the more conventially studied determinants of the process such as the institution of a planned economy. As one of the few books highlighting the impact of warfare on urban settlements, The Price of War will interest all those interested in urbanization, development and South-East Asia. This book was first published in 1986.
