Vietnam's Strategic Thinking during the Third Indochina War (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780299322700)

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.

Author: Kosal Path
ISBN-10: 029932270X
ISBN-13: 9780299322700
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2020
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.80d