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.

Introduction; L.Holmes
Comparative Introduction; S.Balme & M.Sidel
PART I: THE STATE, REFORM, AND THE ROLE OF THE LAW
Legal Reform in Public Administration: Building Blocks for the Rule of Law?; K. Buhman
Political Reforms at the Crossroads: A Sociology of the Vietnamese National Assembly; M.Salomon
The Administration of Hanoi in the 1990s; D.Koh
Vietnamese Courts: Party-State and Law; P.Nicholson
The Changing Relationship between Lawyers and Prosecutors in Vietnam; N. Hung Quang
Legal Reform in Whose Interests? Text, Implementation and Reality in Vietnamese Law: Illuminations from Vietnamese Labor Export and Its Regulation; M.Sidel
PART II: VIETNAM AND THE WORLD ISSUES OF INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION
Vietnam's Integration into the World: National and Global Interfaces; E.Palmujoki
Vietnam's Entry into the World Trade Organization: Limits to its Sovereignty?; V.Mazyrin
Vietnam's Regional Integration: The Costs and Benefits of Multilateralism; C. Thayer
Vietnam's Sovereignty and Regional Integration; R.Amer
Testing an Institutionalist Approach to Relations between Vietnam and ASEAN; N.Vu Tung
Economic Interdependence Within ASEAN: A Vietnamese Strategy to Develop the Country and Reinforce National Security; H.Do-Benoit

STEPHANIE BALME is tenured Research Fellow at Sciences Po.

MARK SIDEL is Professor of Law at the University of Iowa, USA.