Vietnam At A Crossroads

Author : Mark A. Ashwill
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
ISBN 13 : 1931930503
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam Today written by Mark A. Ashwill and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pulsating with energy and steeped in dreams." Vietnam stands at a crossroads. Located in the geographical center of Southeast Asia, Vietnam is a complex mixture of the ancient and the modern. A Soviet-style legacy contrasts with an emerging Western-style market economy. Vietnam is faced with pressing political, social and economic challenges, and yet it is full of hope and potential. Here is a first look at Vietnam in the twenty-first century, a nation undergoing rapid change and opening up to the world. Dr. Mark Ashwill paints a broad picture of Vietnam, past and present, and explores today's defining issues. Readers come to understand how a two-thousand-year history of foreign invasion, occupation and war has deeply influenced the Vietnamese character. The Chinese, French and U.S. Americans have all left their imprint. Yet the struggle against oppression has infused the Vietnamese with a fierce spirit of nationalism and caution in their dealings with foreigners. Building relationships and trust as a prelude to doing business are critical to the Vietnamese, whether at home or abroad. Vietnam Today reveals the most prominent characteristics of the Vietnamese: their energy and drive, the dominance of group over individual and the paramount importance of maintaining harmony. In doing so, Ashwill and his Vietnamese contributor shed light on many sources of misunderstanding between Vietnamese and Western professionals. But for those who are prepared to take the time to get to know the people, to move at their pace, and to learn about their culture and history, Vietnam can be a land of promise and opportunity.

Author : Michael Charles Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam at the Crossroads written by Michael Charles Williams and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mitchell K. Hall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742544444
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossroads written by Mitchell K. Hall and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American popular culture changed dramatically during the Vietnam era. This book explores the popular culture that shaped the baby boomers and the transformation that generation wrought in movies, television, sports, and music. It looks at the ways in which these cultural elements reflected the upheaval and unrest in Vietnam era America.

Author : Seymour Topping
Publisher : Signature Books
ISBN 13 : 9781891936692
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fatal Crossing written by Seymour Topping and published by Signature Books. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Seymour Topping, reaching deep into his long reportorial career in Asia, has given us a masterful treatment of history as novel in this gripping story of the leaders and their people who lived the Vietnam tragedy." Walter Cronkite

Author : Henny Andersen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam at the Crossroads written by Henny Andersen and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claire Hollweg
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464809828
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam at a Crossroads written by Claire Hollweg and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam is at a crossroads. It can grow as an export platform for GVCs, specializing in low value-added assembly functions with industrialization occurring in enclaves with little connection to the broader economy or society; or it can leverage the current wave of growth, enabled and accelerated by its successful participation in GVCs, to diversify and move up the chain into higher value-added functions. Success will require Vietnam’s policymakers to view the processes of development differently, and to take new realities of the global economy more fully into account. The purpose of this volume is to support Vietnam’s path to economic prosperity by identifying policies and targeted interventions that will drive development through leveraging GVC participation that take major shifts in trade policy and rapid technological advances in ICT into account. The volume is based on a compilation of studies completed by World Bank staff and external consultants in 2015 supporting the “Enabling Economic Modernization and Private Sector Development†? chapter of the Vietnam 2035 report. The objective of these studies was to diagnose Vietnam’s current participation in GVCs, visualize where Vietnam could be by 2035 in the context of a changing global environment, and identify the policy actions needed to get there. The studies also supported topics related more broadly to export competitiveness, including firm-level productivity, services, and connectivity. It then identifies targeted strategies and policy interventions that will help overcome challenges, minimize risks, and maximize opportunities. Readers will gain a strong understanding of Vietnam’s current and potential engagement with GVCs—and will learn about strategic GVC policy tools that can help developing countries achieve economic prosperity in the context of compressed development.

Author : James C. Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam at the Crossroads written by James C. Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claire H. Hollweg
Publisher : Directions in Development
ISBN 13 : 9781464809965
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam at a Crossroads written by Claire H. Hollweg and published by Directions in Development. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume supports Vietnam's path to economic prosperity by identifying policies and targeted interventions that will drive development through leveraging GVC participation that take major shifts in trade policy and rapid technological advances in ICT into account

Author : George Mariscal
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520921143
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aztlán and Viet Nam written by George Mariscal and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-01-30 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing over sixty short stories, poems, speeches, and articles, Aztlán and Viet Nam is the first anthology of Mexican American writings about the U.S. war in Southeast Asia. The words are startlingly frank, moving, and immensely powerful, as they call to our attention an important and neglected part of U.S. history. Gathered from many little-known sources, the works reflect both the soldiers' experience and the antiwar movement at home. Taken together, they illustrate the contradictions faced by the traditionally patriotic Mexican American community, and show us the war and the grassroots opposition to it from a new perspective—one that goes beyond the familiar dichotomy of black and white America. George Mariscal offers critical introductions and provides historical background by identifying specific issues which have not been widely discussed in relation to the war, noting, for example, the potential for Chicano soldiers to recognize their own ethnic and class identities in those of the Vietnamese people. Drawing upon interviews with key participants in the National Chicano Moratorium Committee, Mariscal analyzes the antiwar movement, the Catholic Church, traditional Mexican American groups, and an emerging feminist consciousness among Chicanas. Also included are personal accounts: Norma Elia Cantú's remembrance of her brother who died in combat, Bárbara Renaud González's evocative poem about Chicanas on the homefront, Alberto Ríos's and Naomi Helena Quiñonez's moving poetry about the Wall, and the recollections of Abelardo Delgado and others on the August 29, 1970 Moratorium.

Author : Paul J. Noto
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462050131
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the Crossroads of Justice written by Paul J. Noto and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam is remembered as the war that divided a nation and scarred a generation. While the vast majority of American personnel in Vietnam served honorably, a few highly publicized atrocities tarnished the reputation of the military. In At the Crossroads of Justice: My Lai and Son ThangAmerican Atrocities in Vietnam, author Paul J. Noto analyzes two of those incidentsMy Lai and Son Thangagainst the backdrop of a flawed military justice system and an arrogant and inept civilian and military leadership that failed to articulate a coherent military strategy to win the war. Noto shows that failure of leadership contributed to problems of command discipline, racial tension, drug abuse, and general disregard for military protocol. His study examines these issues and describes how ordinary American boys became cold-blooded killers seemingly overnight, what combination of factors led to these tragic events, and how the military can prevent them from happening in future conflicts. By studying these crimes and the judicial process that followed, Noto provides an insightful analysis of the related issues and how they have impacted military training to the present day.