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After decades of Western involvement in Vietnam, the nature of its decision-making system and the personalities of its top leadership still remain a neglected area of research. Vietnam today is a closed and secretive one-party state which carefully regulates contact between outsiders and its citizens. The press and electronic media are carefully controlled to reflect the official party line. In the absence of legal pressure groups, opposition spokesmen and a free press, it is all but impossible to discern the international security perspective of informed Vietnamese opinion.
The author would like to thank Frank Frost of the Australian Parliament’s Legislative Research Service and Lew Stern of the University of Pittsburgh for their comments on an early draft of this chapter.
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Thayer, C.A. (1984). Vietnamese Perspectives on International Security: Three Revolutionary Currents. In: McMillen, D.H. (eds) Asian Perspectives on International Security. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07036-7_5
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