The End of the First Indochina War: A Global History

ISBN-13: 9780415886840 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 310 str.

James Waite

Opis

The French withdrawal from Vietnam in 1954 was the product of global pressures and triggered significant global consequences. By treating the war as an international issue, this book places Indochina at the centre of the Cold War in the mid-1950s.

Spis treści

@contents:Introduction  Part I: Escalation and Negotiation, March 1953 – May 1954  1. "More Important than Korea": Background to Negotiation  2. Defeat in Vietnam? The Battle for Dien Bien Phu  3. The Vietnamese Confront the Cold War  4. Before Geneva: The Foundations of Western Disunity  5. In Search of a "Lesser Evil:" Partition as an Idea  6. United Action Averted  Part II: The Geneva Conference on Indochina, May – July 1954 7. The Geneva Conference: The Bidault Phase  8. Gouverner, c’est choisir  9. The Geneva Conference: The Mendès-France Phase  Part III: The Global Legacy, July 1954 – July 1956  10. Making Partition Permanent  11. Global Implications  Epilogue: "Our offspring"  Sources  Index

O autorze

James Waite is a New Zealand diplomat, currently with the International Security and Disarmament Division in the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Waite was posted to the New Zealand Embassy in Jakarta, 2008-2011. Prior to joining the foreign service, he lectured in history at Ohio University, where he received his PhD in 2005. His articles have appeared in Diplomatic History and the Global Economy Journal.