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The Foreign Policy of Vietnam

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The Political Economy of Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia

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Abstract

Vietnamese foreign policy has been the product of the interaction between a strongly nationalist, self-confident Marxist-Leninist state and a largely hostile external environment. As the first such state in Southeast Asia Vietnam has been occupied, attacked, pressured and isolated by external powers ever since its founding in September 1945. In response to those external pressures the Vietnamese state generated domestic capabilities for the pursuit of security and autonomy that were unusually large, given the poverty of Vietnamese society. In combination with large-scale external assistance, those capabilities were sufficient to defeat larger external powers in two long wars fought in all three countries of Indo-China.

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  1. University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada

    David Wurfel (Professor of Political Science) & Bruce Burton (Associate Professor of Political Science) (Professor of Political Science) &  (Associate Professor of Political Science)

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Porter, G. (1990). The Foreign Policy of Vietnam. In: Wurfel, D., Burton, B. (eds) The Political Economy of Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20813-5_12

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