An examination of the policy of the US Administration of Jimmy Carter towards Vietnam between 1977 and 1980. The book focuses on the attempt of the Carter Administration to normalise relations with Vietnam and the reasons for the failure of that effort. Using a belief systems approach to explain the policy choices of key decision-makers the book presents a new explanation of the policy in question and of the decision to abandon the attempt to normalise relations at the end of 1978.

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The Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Steven Hurst

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Book Title: The Carter Administration and Vietnam
Authors: Steven Hurst
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24782-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-15923-8Due: 24 July 1996
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-24784-4Published: 01 January 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-24782-0Published: 27 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 201
Topics: European Politics, International Relations, Asian History, History of the Americas, Political Science, Modern History

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

United States-Vietnam Relations 1975–7

Changing Vietnamese Policy: January 1978–July 1978

The American Response to the Changed Vietnamese Position

The Retreat from Normalisation

Human Rights and Policy towards Vietnam

Conclusion

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