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Beyond Hanoi : local government in Vietnam by Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet (Editor); David G. Marr (Editor)
Call Number: MENZIES JS7152.3.A2 B57 2004
Publication Date: 2004
The first book in English to examine local government and authority in Vietnam since the country's reunification in 1975. It addresses four questions: what local institutions and offices have authority to govern; who are the local officials and how do they get their positions; what do local governments do and whose interests do they serve; and what do residents say about local officials and governing institutions?
Changing worlds : Vietnam's transition from the Cold War to globalization by David W. P. Elliott
Call Number: MENZIES DS559.912.E45 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Contents: On the eve of Doi Moi reform (1975-1986) . The year of living dangerously (1989). Changing partners in a changing world (1990-1991). Wary reconciliation (1992-1995). Uncertain transition (1996-1999). Taking the plunge (2000-2006). A strategy for the 21st century and Rhetoric and reality.
Four decades on : Vietnam, the United States, and the legacies of the Second Indochina War by Scott Laderman and Edwin A. Martini (Editors)
Call Number: MENZIES DS559.912 .F678 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Anthropologists, and literary critics examine the legacies of the Second Indochina War, or what most Americans call the Vietnam War, nearly forty years after the United States finally left Vietnam. They address matters such as the daunting tasks facing the Vietnamese at the war's end.
Getting organized in Vietnam : moving in and around the socialist state by Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet; Russell Hiang-Khng Heng; David Koh Wee Hock (Editors)
Call Number: MENZIES JQ731.G48 2003
Publication Date: 2003
This book presents original case studies of the gamut of organizations in Vietnam today and analyses their relationships with umbrella state organizations which are themselves evolving. It also constitutes an enquiry into the term civil society itself.
Vietnam's Foreign Policy under Doi Moi by Le Hong Hiep (Editor); Anton Tsvetov (Editor)
Call Number: MENZIES DS556.57 .V54 2018
Publication Date: 2018
This text covers the framework of Vietnam's foreign policymaking and the historical evolution of Vietnam's diplomacy under Doi Moi; Vietnam's bilateral relationships with its major partners, smaller neighbours and ASEAN; the management of the South China Sea disputes and the international economic integration process.
Vietnam: state, war, and revolution (1945-1946) by David G. Marr
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Publication Date: 2013
This book recreates in vivid detail what it was like to be there in these dramatic postcolonial moments as the Japanese, British and Americans faded from view, the DRV began to function and establish an army, the French maneuvered to restore colonialism, but the beginnings of the Cold War swept Vietnam into its orbit with the Chinese Red Army victories and Chinese arms on the border.
Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945 by David G. Marr
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Publication Date: 1981
In this volume, David Marr offers the first serious intellectual history of Vietnam, focusing on the period just prior to full-scale revolutionary upheaval and protracted military conflict. He argues that changes in political and social consciousness between 1920 and 1945 were a necessary precondition to the mass mobilization and people's war strategies employed subsequently against the French and the Americans.