Vietnam's New Order

Vietnam's New Order

Author: S. Balme

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-26

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0230601979

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This volume brings together distinguished international specialists on Vietnam and its reform process to explore the impact of reform in Vietnam on the Vietnamese state, society, and order, and Vietnam's international and regional environment.


Opportunities and Challenges for the Greater Mekong Subregion

Opportunities and Challenges for the Greater Mekong Subregion

Author: Charles Samuel Johnston

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-01-29

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 100002489X

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The Mekong River is a vital and valuable resource, with huge development potential for the six states through which it flows. Given the significant asymmetry of power between those states, however, there is a real risk that some might utilise it to the detriment of others. Without a sense of regional belonging, it is difficult to imagine that these states and their constituent communities will take regional imperatives to heart, participate in joint regulatory frameworks, or adopt behaviours for upstream-downstream and lateral cooperation over the appropriation and use of their shared resources. How effectively has closer interdependence of the Mekong countries accommodated the development of a political-social-cultural space conducive to the growth of a regional "we-ness" among not only political elites, but also the general public? The contributors to this volume approach this question from a range of directions, including the impacts of tourism, regional development programmes, the Mekong Power Grid, and Sino-US rivalry. This edited volume presents valuable insights for scholars of international relations, Asian studies, development studies, environment studies, policy studies, and human geography.


Vietnam’s Post-1975 Agrarian Reforms

Vietnam’s Post-1975 Agrarian Reforms

Author: Trung Dang

Publisher: ANU Press

Published: 2018-04-17

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1760461962

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This book investigates why collectivised farming failed in south Vietnam after 1975. Despite the strong will of the new regime to implement collectivisation, the effort was uneven, misapplied and subverted. After only 10 years of trying, the regime annulled the policy. Focusing on two case studies—Quảng Nam province in the Central Coast region and An Giang province in the Mekong Delta—and based on extensive evidence, this study argues that the reasons for variations in implementation and the failure and reversal of the policy were twofold: regional differences and local politics.