Changing Worlds; Vietnam's Transition from Cold War to Globalization

Elliott, David W.P.

ISBN 10: 0199377588 / ISBN 13: 9780199377589

Published by Oxford University Press, 2012

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Book has mild wear to edges and corners, light smudging, slight curling to corners.Otherwise, attractive copy with clean, unmarked pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Changing Worlds; Vietnam's Transition from Cold War to Globalization
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199377588
• ISBN 13: 9780199377589
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

For the most of the twentieth century, the country of Vietnam has served as a symbol of the bipolar system of rival ideological blocs that characterized the Cold War. As the conflict over communism waned in the 1980s, Vietnam faced the tough task of remaking itself as nation in the eyes of its people and of the world. In Changing Worlds, David W.P. Elliot, a participant in the Aspen Institute's U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue who has spent the past forty years working closely with the people and government of Vietnam, chronicles the evolution of the Vietnamese state as we know it today.

About the Author

David W. P. Elliott is H. Russell Smith Professor of Government and International Relations at Pomona College. Upon completion of a year of Vietnamese language training at the Defense Language Institute, Elliott served with the U.S. Army in Vietnam from 1963-65. In 1965, he joined the Rand Corporation, and supervised part of its "Viet Cong Motivation and Morale Study" in Dinh Tuong province in the Mekong Delta until the end of 1967. During the course of graduate study at Cornell University, he returned to Vietnam to do research in 1971-72 and has returned to Vietnam nine times in the post 1975 period to do research, attend conferences, and participate in educational exchanges. Elliott was a participant in the U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue sponsored by the Aspen Institute and organized by former Senator Dick Clark in the 1980s and early 1990s and accompanied Senator Clark to Vietnam in 1991 for meetings with leading Vietnamese figures.