James Waite

The End of the First Indochina War (eBook, ePUB)

A Global History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 center of the Cold War in the mid-1950s. Arguing that the Indochina War cannot be understood as a topic of Franco-US relations, but ought to be treated as international history, this volume brings in Vietnamese and other global agents, including New Zealand, Australia, and especially Britain, as well as China and the Soviet Union. Importantly, the book also argues that the successful French withdrawal from Vietnam - a political defeat for the Eisenhower administration - helped to avert outright warfare between the major powers, although with very mixed results for the inhabitants of Vietnam who faced partition and further bloodshed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136273346
• Artikelnr.: 38256324

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

@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