Description
Book SynopsisProvides 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.
Trade ReviewThe first academic monograph in any language dedicated to telling the story of the Third Indochina War from the Vietnamese perspective using predominantly Vietnamese archival sources.
. . . It will be required reading for scholars of Vietnamese, regional, and global Cold War diplomatic history and international relations for years to come. . . . An immense contribution." -
Journal of Vietnamese StudiesTable of Contents
- Acknowledgments ix
- List of Abbreviations xi
- Introduction 3
- 1 Impact of the Economic Crisis, 1975–1978 19
- 2 The Decision to Invade Cambodia, December 1978 52
- 3 Mobilization for a Two-Front War, 1979–1981 79
- 4 The Two-Faced Enemy in Cambodia, 1979–1985 113
- 5 Economic Regionalism in Indochina, 1982–1985 134
- 6 The Road to Doi Moi, 1986 167
- Conclusion 203
- Notes 211
- Bibliography 263
- Index 285
