Road to Vietnam

America, France, Britain, and the First Vietnam War

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvPablo de Orellana

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Why did the USA become involved in Vietnam? What led US policy makers to become convinced that Vietnam posed a threat to American interests? In The Road to Vietnam, Pablo de Orellana traces the origins of the US-Vietnam War back to 1945-1948 and the diplomatic relations fostered in this period between the US, France and Vietnam, during the First Vietnam War that pitted imperial France against the anti-colonial Vietminh rebel alliance. With specific focus on the representation of the parties involved through the processes of diplomatic production, the book examines how the groundwork was laid for the US-Vietnam War of the 60’s and 70’s. Examining the France-Vietminh conflict through poststructuralist and postcolonial lenses, de Orellana reveals the processes by which the US and France built up the perception of Vietnam as a communist threat. Drawing on archival diplomatic texts, the representation of political identity between diplomatic actors is examined as a cause leading up to American involvement in the First Vietnam War, and will be sure to interest scholars in the fields of fields of diplomatic studies, international relations, diplomatic history and Cold War history.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-09-09
Mått154 x 232 x 18 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780755637126

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AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsFiguresPreludePART I OUVERTURES1. The Road to Vietnam: historical debates, and the question of representationHistorical debatesConstructing diplomatic understanding of France and VietminhUnderstanding representation in diplomacy: historical and conceptual requirements2. Reading diplomatic knowledge: analytics and sourcesConceptual developments: Postructuralism, identity, and textAnalysing representation of identity in diplomacy: from concepts to methodsOn the archival trail of the First Vietnam War: sources3. Diplomatic pathwaysPART II DIPLOMATIC TEXT AND THE WORDS OF IDENTITY1. The Vietminh rebel alliance: universal rights and self-determination2. The French Empire strikes back: aggression against Ð?c L?p3. Vietminh as Fascists: Vietnam does not exist4. Vietminh as Communists: ‘Moscow’s interest in Indo-China’5. A ‘united front’ and ‘the left-wing trend of the Viet-Minh’6. D’Argenlieu’s ‘sudden raising of the Communist bogey’7. Meeting ‘radical Annamese opponents of both France and Japan’8. Creating Pyle’s “Third Force”: ‘a truly nationalist government’PART III DIPLOMATIC STRUGGLES OVER IDENTITY 1948-19451. Late 1948-September 1947: the year of the Stalinist dominoFranceBritainUSVietminh2. August 1947-September 1946: French intransigence and Anglo-Saxon antipathyFranceBritainUSVietminh3. August 1946-April 1945: WWII ghosts and rethinking colonialismFranceBritainUSVietminhEpilogueNOTESBIBLIOGRAPHY