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Author: Ted Osius Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 197882517X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 238
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Today Vietnam is one of America’s strongest international partners, with a thriving economy and a population that welcomes American visitors. How that relationship was formed is a twenty-year story of daring diplomacy and a careful thawing of tensions between the two countries after a lengthy war that cost nearly 60,000 American and more than two million Vietnamese lives. Ted Osius, former ambassador during the Obama administration, offers a vivid account, starting in the 1990s, of the various forms of diplomacy that made this reconciliation possible. He considers the leaders who put aside past traumas to work on creating a brighter future, including senators John McCain and John Kerry, two Vietnam veterans and ideological opponents who set aside their differences for a greater cause, and Pete Peterson—the former POW who became the first U.S. ambassador to a new Vietnam. Osius also draws upon his own experiences working first-hand with various Vietnamese leaders and traveling the country on bicycle to spotlight the ordinary Vietnamese people who have helped bring about their nation’s extraordinary renaissance. With a foreword by former Secretary of State John Kerry, Nothing Is Impossible tells an inspiring story of how international diplomacy can create a better world.
Author: Murray Hiebert Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1442228709 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 71
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A New Era of U.S.-Vietnam Relations examines the history of the relationship and offers concrete recommendations for policymakers in both countries to deepen cooperation across each major area of the relationship: political and security ties, trade and economic linkages, and people-to-people connections.
Author: Michael F. Martin Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 143792753X Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 35
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Contents: (1) Brief History of Post-War U.S.-Vietnam Relations and the Agent Orange Issue; (2) U.S. Gov¿t. Assistance; (3) The Effects of Agent Orange on Vietnam: Brief History of the Use of Agent Orange in Vietnam; Estimates of Vietnamese Exposure to Agent Orange; Amount Used; Vietnam¿s Health Claims; (4) Clean-Up Efforts; (5) Vietnam¿s Assistance to the Victims: Government Support; AO Central Payments Programme; U.S. Civil Suit for Compensation; Vietnamese Americans and Agent Orange; (6) Other Sources of Assistance: Vietnamese Non-Governmental Assistance; Peace Villages; Ford Fdn.; UNICEF; U.N. Develop. Program; Bill and Melinda Gates Fdn. and the Atlantic Philanthropies; (7) Implications for Bilateral Relations.
Author: Cécile Menétrey-Monchau Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476609772 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 317
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When the Vietnam War ended with the North Vietnamese capture of Saigon on April 30, 1975--27 months after a cease-fire had been signed in Paris--the differences between the United States and Vietnam were far from being resolved. Mutual bitterness regarding the war remained. Newly unified Vietnam wanted normalization of relations and the subsequent economic reconstruction aid promised in the Paris Peace Accords. Understandably wary of such diplomatic relations, the United States requested information regarding soldiers listed as missing in action and assistance with the repatriation of military remains. A series of misconceptions and misunderstandings as well as changes from a regional to a global U.S. foreign policy left both countries bereft of an easy solution. This book describes the negotiations during the late Ford and early Carter administrations (1975-1979) and discusses the repercussions the diplomatic stalemate had on the domestic and international politics of the United States and Vietnam, emphasizing the conflicting priorities and political goals of both countries, at home and abroad. This previously neglected period in United States-Vietnam relations deals with issues such as Hanoi's constant exultation over the victory, American denial of responsibility, the division between the presidents' public declarations and congressional policies, and both sides' use of the MIA issue. Based primarily on recently declassified documents and former U.S. official Douglas Pike's uncensored collection, the work also makes use of media press sources from America, Vietnam, Britain, France and China. Interviews with Vietnamese immigrants and former U.S. politicians provide insight unavailable in written histories. Appendices contain the February 1973 correspondence between President Nixon and the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, six diplomatic notes from 1976, and a January 30, 1979, letter from President Carter to Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping.