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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 : J. Cable
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230599257
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Geneva Conference of 1954 on Indochina written by J. Cable and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-06-29 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Geneva Agreements of 1954 were widely welcomed. They ended a seven-year war in Indochina; gave France a dignified exit; averted wider conflict. In later years first Americans and Vietnamese, then Russians, Chinese, Cambodians and even Laotians tried to force Indochina into different patterns of their own devising. These new wars triggered by rejection of the Geneva compromise lasted longer, killed more people, did greater damage and achieved less - for everybody. Perhaps Churchill was right: jaw-jaw is better than war-war. Certainly this lively, first-hand, up-dated account of the Geneva Conference of 1954 - that triumph of old-fashioned diplomacy, which Britain initiated and France completed - offers a better model for the twenty-first century to follow.
Author : Eric M Bergerud
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429976291
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Dynamics Of Defeat written by Eric M Bergerud and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most active debate about the Vietnam War today is prompted by those who believe that the United States could have won the war either through an improved military strategy or through more.
Author : Chad Mitcham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134378459
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book China's Economic Relations with the West and Japan, 1949-1979 written by Chad Mitcham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the period 1949 to 1979, communist China was officially pursuing a policy of self-sufficiency, and the United States and its allies were officially implementing a trade embargo against communist China. However, this book, based on extensive original research, demonstrates that China was highly dependent on Western/Japanese grain imports. The text shows that groups lobbying on behalf of Western/Japanese grain producers and related industries had successfully found ways of by-passing the embargo. This book charts the complicated picture of how economic relations between China, the West and Japan developed in these years.
Author : Chad J. Mitcham
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 041531481X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (153 download)
Download or read book China's Economic Relations with the West and Japan, 1949-79 written by Chad J. Mitcham and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1949 and 1979 China was officially self sufficient and under allied trade embargo, this text examines the complicated history of how economic relations between China and the West/Japan developed during that period.
Author : Cheng Guan Ang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134341288
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Ending the Vietnam War written by Cheng Guan Ang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 370 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, tells the story of the war from the Tet offensive in 1968 up to the reunification of Vietnam in April 1975. Overall, it provides an important corrective to the predominantly US-centric narratives of the war by placing the Vietnamese communists centre-stage in the story. It is a sequel to the author's Routledge Curzon book The Vietnam War From the Other Side, which covers the period 1962-68.
Author : Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080783551X
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Hanoi's War written by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines international context in which North Vietnamese leaders pursued the war & American intervention ended, taking readers from marshy swamps of the Mekong Delta to corridors of power in Hanoi & the Nixon White House; from peace negotiations in Paris to high-level meetings in Beijing & Moscow, all to reveal peace never had a chance in Vietnam.
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.
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 : 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 : Matthew Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139487337
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book After Hiroshima written by Matthew Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By emphasising the role of nuclear issues, After Hiroshima, published in 2010, provides an original history of American policy in Asia between the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan and the escalation of the Vietnam War. Drawing on a wide range of documentary evidence, Matthew Jones charts the development of American nuclear strategy and the foreign policy problems it raised, as the United States both confronted China and attempted to win the friendship of an Asia emerging from colonial domination. In underlining American perceptions that Asian peoples saw the possible repeat use of nuclear weapons as a manifestation of Western attitudes of 'white superiority', he offers new insights into the links between racial sensitivities and the conduct of US policy, and a fresh interpretation of the transition in American strategy from massive retaliation to flexible response in the era spanned by the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
Author : Roberto Rabel
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1775581284
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)
Download or read book New Zealand and the Vietnam War written by Roberto Rabel and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with the first Indochina War in the 1950s, this historical analysis covers the story of New Zealand's relations with Vietnam up to the end of the Vietnam War in the 1970s. Exploring the diplomatic history of the engagement, which is not well known or understood, and showing that New Zealand officials and politicians in fact entered the war with extreme reluctance, this describes how the dispatch of troops to Vietnam divided the country, enraged a generation, and forced the government to publicly defend its policy. Readers quickly discover that the fallout from the Vietnam conflict still affects New Zealand's position today—from its well-known antinuclear stance to its position over the recent Iraq conflict.
Author : A. Short
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317872266
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Origins of the Vietnam War written by A. Short and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the origins of the Vietnam War itself, going back to the nature of French colonial rule in the early 20th century. It investigates the original conflict between France, as well as the United States, and the forces of Vietnamese nationalism and communism. It argues that it was probably a mistake for the United States to internationalize the war in 1954 and it discusses the American commitment to the war, directed as much against China as against North Vietnam and the ideological hostility to communism.
Author : William Conrad Gibbons
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400861535
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships, Part III written by William Conrad Gibbons and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part III, which begins in January 1965 and ends in January 1967, treats the watershed period of U.S. involvement in the war, from President Johnson's decision to bomb North Vietnam and to send U.S. ground forces into South Vietnam, through the buildup of military forces and political cadres required by the new U.S. role in the war. This volume examines Johnson's policymaking, his interaction with military advisors and with Congressional critics such as Mike Mansfield, and his reactions as protests against the war began to grow. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Arthur Mark Weisburd
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271043016
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Use of Force written by Arthur Mark Weisburd and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1997-04-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is among the few to develop in detail the proposition that international law on the subject of interstate force is better derived from practice than from treaties. Mark Weisburd assembles here a broad body of evidence to support practice-based rules of law on the subject of force. Analyses of a particular use of force by a state against another state generally begin with the language of the Charter of the United Nations. This approach is seriously flawed, argues Weisburd. States do not, in fact, behave as the Charter requires. If the legal rule regulating the use of force is the rule of the Charter, then law is nearly irrelevant to the interstate use of force. However, treaties like the Charter are not the only source of public international law. Customary law, too, is binding on states. If state behavior can be shown to conform generally to what amount to tacit rules on the use of force, and if states generally enforce such rules against other states, then the resulting pattern of practice strongly supports the argument that the use of force is affected by law at a very practical level. This work aims to demonstrate that such patterns exist and to explain their content. Weisburd discusses over one hundred interstate conflicts that took place from 1945 through 1991. He focuses on the behavior of the states using force and on the reaction of third parties to the use of force. He concentrates upon state practice rather than upon treaty law and does not assume a priori that any particular policy goal can be attributed to the international legal system, proceeding instead on the assumption that the system's goals can be determined only by examining the workings of the system.
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 : Karl Hack
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136839011
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Defence and Decolonisation in South-East Asia written by Karl Hack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains why British defence policy and practice emerged as it did in the period 1941-67, by looking at the overlapping of colonial, military, economic and Cold War factors in the area. Its main focus is on the 1950s and the decolonisation era, but it argues that the plans and conditions of this period can only be understood by tracing them back to their origins in the fall of Singapore. Also, it shows how decolonisation was shaped not just by British aims, but by the way communism, communalism and nationalism facilitated and frustrated these.
