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Based on over forty years' consideration of Vietnam's history, the author aims (a) to put the Vietnam War within the context of Vietnam's overall history; (b) to examine the historical interaction of the United States and Vietnam in war and peace; (c) to understand U.S. and Vietnamese policies and perceptions and their implications; (d) to encourage the reader to appreciate Vietnamese points of reference, purposes, goals, and tactical/strategic means to achieve its goals; and (e) to understand the limits of American power and influence and the means to maximize foreign policy achievements by understanding the goals and intentions of it adversaries. This book is a memoire of the author's more than forty-year personal involvement with Vietnam. It implants the Vietnam War in the context of Vietnam's long, tortured history, its historic struggle for independence from China, its political radicalization in the twenties, its wars with France and the United States, and its political and economic evolution up to the contemporary time. The book is based on summer seminars the author conducted in Hanoi, Vietnam, for Princeton University, entitled "The Origins, Consequences, and Implications of America's War with Vietnam." Within this context, the author explores U.S. policy toward Vietnam in six assignments from 1964 in and about Vietnam, culminating in opening the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi 1995-1997. Against this background, the Princeton seminars in Hanoi 2007-2009 immersed the author in extensive research and intensive, direct contact with a wide variety of ordinary and professional Vietnamese, as well as distinguished historic Vietnamese figures. This seminar and those contacts permitted a radical reexamination of U.S. and Vietnamese policies, perceptions, and aspirations, as spelled out in this book.
United States-Vietnam Reconciliation
Anderson, Desaix Foreign relations, Memoirs and Occasional Papers

Based on over forty years' consideration of Vietnam's history, the author aims (a) to put the Vietnam War within the context of Vietnam's overall history; (b) to examine the historical interaction of the United States and Vietnam in war and peace; (c) to understand U.S. and Vietnamese policies and perceptions...

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Early American Diplomacy in the Near and Far East: The Diplomatic and Personal History of Edmund Q. Roberts
Early American Diplomacy in the Near and Far East: The Diplomatic and Personal History of...
Eilts, Hermann F. Diplomats and Diplomacy, Foreign relations

The ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series has now reached fifty volumes with the publication of Early American Diplomacy in the Near and Far East by the late Ambassador Hermann F. Eilts, a leading twentieth-century diplomat and scholar.

From the inception of the republic to the Civil War, the United States eschewed political...

Strangers When We Met: A Century of American Community in Kuwait
Strangers When We Met: A Century of American Community in Kuwait
Howell, Nathaniel W. Diplomatic and consular service, Foreign relations

This history, twenty years in the research and writing, relates the story of Americans living in Kuwait, beginning with the establishment of the American Mission Hospital in 1911. It covers the first century of community experience ending in 2011, which is also the fiftieth anniversary of Kuwait's emergence as an...

This is a collective memoir of yesteryear when the Cold War was still icy. The Reagan-Gorbachev Arms Control Breakthrough analyzes the limitation of intermediate-range nuclear force missiles from the vantage point of history, drawing primarily on the reflections of the INF Treaty negotiators in 1988, immediately following the treaty’s completion and ratification, but also providing today’s retrospective judgments. It is increasingly difficult to invoke the waning years of the Cold War, with its ever-present fear that Soviet tank armies would thrust toward the English Channel, bringing nuclear war in their wake. This book brings that period to life through the writings of key participants in the successful negotiation of the INF Treaty: Ambassador MAYNARD W. GLITMAN – INF Negotiator and principal administration witness during Senate ratification testimony Ambassador JOHN WOODWORTH – INF deputy negotiator and DOD representative RONALD BARTEK – State Department representative on the INF Delegation and Principal Negotiator for the INF Treaty Elimination Protocol ROGER HARRISON – Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs and Chairman on the INF Interagency Group DAVID T. JONES – Special Assistant to Ambassador Glitman and Deputy for the State Department INF Treaty Ratification Task Force GEOFFREY LEVITT – State Department lawyer addressing end game elements of the INF Treaty LEO REDDY – State Department representative at the INF negotiations in Geneva. The book offers an astute balance between the assessments of senior negotiators; the “nuts and bolts” observations of those in the trenches; the twists that required the keenest of legal minds to untangle; and the political manipulations and maneuvers in the epic struggle that secured its ultimate ratification by the U.S. Senate. There was a touch of arrogance in the builders of the INF Treaty as they ventured into agreement with a disagreeable adversary. Historically, Moscow had never adhered to such an agreement; violations great and small with partners were the hallmark of arrangements with the Soviets. For the diplomats involved, the INF Treaty was a bright, shining, and potentially defining breakthrough in Cold War arms control with a hostile Moscow. The treaty’s unique elements achieved unprecedented negotiating objectives, weapons elimination, and verification, fulfilling hopes rather than fears.
The Reagan-Gorbachev Arms Control Breakthrough
Jones, David T. Foreign relations, Memoirs and Occasional Papers

This is a collective memoir of yesteryear when the Cold War was still icy. The Reagan-Gorbachev Arms Control Breakthrough analyzes the limitation of intermediate-range nuclear force missiles from the vantage point of history, drawing primarily on the reflections of the INF Treaty negotiators in 1988, immediately following the treaty’s completion and ratification, but also providing...

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Uncle Sam in Barbary: A Diplomatic History
Uncle Sam in Barbary: A Diplomatic History
Parker, Richard B. Diplomats and Diplomacy, Foreign relations

In Uncle Sam in Barbary, Richard Parker tells the story of the young American republic’s first hostage crisis, and earliest encounter with Islam, which began in 1785 when Algerine corsairs–the Barbary pirates–captured two U.S. vessels off the coast of Portugal. The situation dragged on until 1796, when the United States paid...

China Boys: How U.S. Relations with the PRC Began and Grew
China Boys: How U.S. Relations with the PRC Began and Grew
Platt, Nicholas Asia Society, China -- Relations., Diplomats and Diplomacy, Foreign relations, United States -- Foreign relations -- China.

China Boys offers a close-up view of the U.S. opening to China and the pioneer days in U.S.-China relations that followed. Former ambassador and Asia Society president Nicholas Platt recounts the preparations and interplay surrounding the historic Nixon visit to China in 1972, the setting up of America’s first resident diplomatic...

The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria: Their Life Stories in Signs, Symbols, and Motifs
The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria: Their Life Stories in Signs, Symbols, and Motifs
Sanders, Robin Ambassadors, Biography, Foreign relations

Dr. Robin Renee Sanders, having lived in Africa for several years, was always struck by the ancestral, socio-historical and educational aspects of certain African cultural practices, especially languages, artifacts, and sign and symbol systems from the Ovahimba in Namibia and Pygmies in Congo, to the Horom, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, and...

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The Rise of Africa’s Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
The Rise of Africa’s Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Sanders, Robin Africa, history, Diplomats, Foreign relations

Ambassador (Dr.) Robin Renee Sanders’ new book on The Rise of Africa’s Small & Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) is an insightful examination of the dramatic shift in the development paradigm for Sub Saharan Africa — driven in large part by the imaginative, innovative, and insta-impact leadership of the region’s small...

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