I wish to find out why there has been so little war in East Asia (Northeast + Southeast Asia) since 1979, when there was so much war there in the previous period. In 1979, war "moved" to other world regions. Is this because of a new regional power balance created by Sino-American rapprochement? Is it because economic growth led to less domestic tension and increased regional trade, with nations depending more on stable international relations? Is it due to new regional discourse, linked to the ASEAN Way? Or was the reason a shift in national priorities, with economic growth placed on top of the national agenda?
Based on new archival research in many countries, this volume broadens the context of the U.S. in... more Based on new archival research in many countries, this volume broadens the context of the U.S. intervention in Vietnam. Its primary focus is on relations between China and Vietnam in the mid-twentieth century; but the book also deals with China's relations with Cambodia, U.S. dealings with both China and Vietnam, French attitudes toward Vietnam and China, and Soviet views of Vietnam and China. Contributors from seven countries range from senior scholars and officials with decades of experience to young academics just finishing their dissertations. The general impact of this work is to internationalize the history of the Vietnam War, going well beyond the long-standing focus on the role of the United States.
Introduction : the Vietnam War in its international setting / Priscilla Roberts 1 1 Mao Zedong and the Indochina wars / Yang Kuisong 55 2 Forging a new relationship : the Soviet Union and Vietnam, 1955 / Mari Olsen 97 3 Opportunities lost? : Kennedy, China, and Vietnam / Noam Kochavi 127 4 The French recognition of China and its implications for the Vietnam War / Fredrik Logevall 153 5 The economic and political impact of the Vietnam War on China in 1964 / Li Xiangqian 173 6 Informing the enemy : Sino-American "signaling" and the Vietnam War, 1965 / James G. Hershberg, Chen Jian 193 7 Beijing's aid to Hanoi and the United States-China confrontations, 1964-1968 / Shu Guang Zhang 259 8 The Sino-Soviet dispute over assistance for Vietnam's anti-American war, 1965-1972 / Li Danhui 289 9 The background to the shift in Chinese policy toward the United States in the late 1960s / Niu Jun 319 10 Sino-U.S. reconciliation and China's Vietnam policy / Shen Zhihua 349 11 China and the Cambodian conflict, 1970-1975 / Zhai Qiang 369 12 The Soviet-Chinese-Vietnamese triangle in the 1970s : the view from Moscow / Stephen J. Morris 405 13 Commentary : a Vietnamese scholar's perspective on the communist big powers and Vietnam / Luu Doan Huynh 433 14 Le Duan and the break with China / Stein Tonnesson, Christopher E. Goscha 453 15 Selected conversations of Asian communist leaders on Indochina 487
Page 1. WHAT IS IT THAT BEST EXPLAINS THE EAST ASIAN PEACE SINCE 1979? A CALL FOR A RESEARCH AGEN... more Page 1. WHAT IS IT THAT BEST EXPLAINS THE EAST ASIAN PEACE SINCE 1979? A CALL FOR A RESEARCH AGENDA* Stein Tønnesson This article discusses how historians and social scientists may go about seeking ...
ABSTRACT This article examines the impact of the UN Law of the Sea Convention on conflict behavio... more ABSTRACT This article examines the impact of the UN Law of the Sea Convention on conflict behavior and management in the South China Sea during four periods: during its negotiation (1973–1982); from its signing to the entry into force (1982–1994); from then until the China-ASEAN Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (1995–2002); and from the setting of a timeline for outer limits of continental shelf submissions to the events following the 2009 submissions (2003–2013). Ambiguous effects were found. On the one hand, the Convention has generated or exacerbated conflict by raising the stakes, failing to resolve key legal issues, and encouraging overlapping zone claims. On the other hand, it has provided obligations, language, and techniques for conflict management and resolution. The conflict-enhancing impact was found to have been more substantial than the peace-promoting effects. Nevertheless, the balance has shifted toward more emphasis on conflict management and also some utilization of the Convention's peacemaking potential. If this long-term trend continues and the Convention is more rigorously respected and applied, the Convention may in the end be found to have contributed to regional peace.
... View all notes. Economists have refuted the 'peak oil theory', arguing that the mar... more ... View all notes. Economists have refuted the 'peak oil theory', arguing that the market forces will ... In the game of strategic balancing in relation to oil and gas, the control of sea ... There is also an ongoing Sino-Indian rivalry over pipeline construction from the offshore oil and gas ...
Contemporary Southeast Asia A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs
This is likely to become a classic work on East Asia's maritime disputes, along with Marwyn S... more This is likely to become a classic work on East Asia's maritime disputes, along with Marwyn S. Samuels' still unequalled historical account (Contest for the South China Sea, 1982), Mark Valencia, Jon M. Van Dyke and Noel A. Ludwig's legal and natural science overview (Sharing the Resources of the South China Sea, 1997) and Greg Austin's comprehensive discussion of China's policies (China's Ocean Frontier: International Law, Military Force and National Development, 1998). Surprisingly, Emmers does not cite these works, but this does not detract from the value of his analysis, which focuses mainly on the contemporary period. It is to the author's advantage that he, like Austin, includes both the East and South China Seas, since this allows for interesting and valuable comparisons. The introduction defines Emmers' genre as geopolitical International Relations, which he sees as different from the "empirical, historical, and/or legalistic" approa...
Based on new archival research in many countries, this volume broadens the context of the U.S. in... more Based on new archival research in many countries, this volume broadens the context of the U.S. intervention in Vietnam. Its primary focus is on relations between China and Vietnam in the mid-twentieth century; but the book also deals with China's relations with Cambodia, U.S. dealings with both China and Vietnam, French attitudes toward Vietnam and China, and Soviet views of Vietnam and China. Contributors from seven countries range from senior scholars and officials with decades of experience to young academics just finishing their dissertations. The general impact of this work is to internationalize the history of the Vietnam War, going well beyond the long-standing focus on the role of the United States.
Introduction : the Vietnam War in its international setting / Priscilla Roberts 1 1 Mao Zedong and the Indochina wars / Yang Kuisong 55 2 Forging a new relationship : the Soviet Union and Vietnam, 1955 / Mari Olsen 97 3 Opportunities lost? : Kennedy, China, and Vietnam / Noam Kochavi 127 4 The French recognition of China and its implications for the Vietnam War / Fredrik Logevall 153 5 The economic and political impact of the Vietnam War on China in 1964 / Li Xiangqian 173 6 Informing the enemy : Sino-American "signaling" and the Vietnam War, 1965 / James G. Hershberg, Chen Jian 193 7 Beijing's aid to Hanoi and the United States-China confrontations, 1964-1968 / Shu Guang Zhang 259 8 The Sino-Soviet dispute over assistance for Vietnam's anti-American war, 1965-1972 / Li Danhui 289 9 The background to the shift in Chinese policy toward the United States in the late 1960s / Niu Jun 319 10 Sino-U.S. reconciliation and China's Vietnam policy / Shen Zhihua 349 11 China and the Cambodian conflict, 1970-1975 / Zhai Qiang 369 12 The Soviet-Chinese-Vietnamese triangle in the 1970s : the view from Moscow / Stephen J. Morris 405 13 Commentary : a Vietnamese scholar's perspective on the communist big powers and Vietnam / Luu Doan Huynh 433 14 Le Duan and the break with China / Stein Tonnesson, Christopher E. Goscha 453 15 Selected conversations of Asian communist leaders on Indochina 487
Page 1. WHAT IS IT THAT BEST EXPLAINS THE EAST ASIAN PEACE SINCE 1979? A CALL FOR A RESEARCH AGEN... more Page 1. WHAT IS IT THAT BEST EXPLAINS THE EAST ASIAN PEACE SINCE 1979? A CALL FOR A RESEARCH AGENDA* Stein Tønnesson This article discusses how historians and social scientists may go about seeking ...
ABSTRACT This article examines the impact of the UN Law of the Sea Convention on conflict behavio... more ABSTRACT This article examines the impact of the UN Law of the Sea Convention on conflict behavior and management in the South China Sea during four periods: during its negotiation (1973–1982); from its signing to the entry into force (1982–1994); from then until the China-ASEAN Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (1995–2002); and from the setting of a timeline for outer limits of continental shelf submissions to the events following the 2009 submissions (2003–2013). Ambiguous effects were found. On the one hand, the Convention has generated or exacerbated conflict by raising the stakes, failing to resolve key legal issues, and encouraging overlapping zone claims. On the other hand, it has provided obligations, language, and techniques for conflict management and resolution. The conflict-enhancing impact was found to have been more substantial than the peace-promoting effects. Nevertheless, the balance has shifted toward more emphasis on conflict management and also some utilization of the Convention's peacemaking potential. If this long-term trend continues and the Convention is more rigorously respected and applied, the Convention may in the end be found to have contributed to regional peace.
... View all notes. Economists have refuted the 'peak oil theory', arguing that the mar... more ... View all notes. Economists have refuted the 'peak oil theory', arguing that the market forces will ... In the game of strategic balancing in relation to oil and gas, the control of sea ... There is also an ongoing Sino-Indian rivalry over pipeline construction from the offshore oil and gas ...
Contemporary Southeast Asia A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs
This is likely to become a classic work on East Asia's maritime disputes, along with Marwyn S... more This is likely to become a classic work on East Asia's maritime disputes, along with Marwyn S. Samuels' still unequalled historical account (Contest for the South China Sea, 1982), Mark Valencia, Jon M. Van Dyke and Noel A. Ludwig's legal and natural science overview (Sharing the Resources of the South China Sea, 1997) and Greg Austin's comprehensive discussion of China's policies (China's Ocean Frontier: International Law, Military Force and National Development, 1998). Surprisingly, Emmers does not cite these works, but this does not detract from the value of his analysis, which focuses mainly on the contemporary period. It is to the author's advantage that he, like Austin, includes both the East and South China Seas, since this allows for interesting and valuable comparisons. The introduction defines Emmers' genre as geopolitical International Relations, which he sees as different from the "empirical, historical, and/or legalistic" approa...
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Books by Stein Tonnesson
Introduction : the Vietnam War in its international setting / Priscilla Roberts 1
1 Mao Zedong and the Indochina wars / Yang Kuisong 55
2 Forging a new relationship : the Soviet Union and Vietnam, 1955 / Mari Olsen 97
3 Opportunities lost? : Kennedy, China, and Vietnam / Noam Kochavi 127
4 The French recognition of China and its implications for the Vietnam War / Fredrik Logevall 153
5 The economic and political impact of the Vietnam War on China in 1964 / Li Xiangqian 173
6 Informing the enemy : Sino-American "signaling" and the Vietnam War, 1965 / James G. Hershberg, Chen Jian 193
7 Beijing's aid to Hanoi and the United States-China confrontations, 1964-1968 / Shu Guang Zhang 259
8 The Sino-Soviet dispute over assistance for Vietnam's anti-American war, 1965-1972 / Li Danhui 289
9 The background to the shift in Chinese policy toward the United States in the late 1960s / Niu Jun 319
10 Sino-U.S. reconciliation and China's Vietnam policy / Shen Zhihua 349
11 China and the Cambodian conflict, 1970-1975 / Zhai Qiang 369
12 The Soviet-Chinese-Vietnamese triangle in the 1970s : the view from Moscow / Stephen J. Morris 405
13 Commentary : a Vietnamese scholar's perspective on the communist big powers and Vietnam / Luu Doan Huynh 433
14 Le Duan and the break with China / Stein Tonnesson, Christopher E. Goscha 453
15 Selected conversations of Asian communist leaders on Indochina 487
Papers by Stein Tonnesson
Introduction : the Vietnam War in its international setting / Priscilla Roberts 1
1 Mao Zedong and the Indochina wars / Yang Kuisong 55
2 Forging a new relationship : the Soviet Union and Vietnam, 1955 / Mari Olsen 97
3 Opportunities lost? : Kennedy, China, and Vietnam / Noam Kochavi 127
4 The French recognition of China and its implications for the Vietnam War / Fredrik Logevall 153
5 The economic and political impact of the Vietnam War on China in 1964 / Li Xiangqian 173
6 Informing the enemy : Sino-American "signaling" and the Vietnam War, 1965 / James G. Hershberg, Chen Jian 193
7 Beijing's aid to Hanoi and the United States-China confrontations, 1964-1968 / Shu Guang Zhang 259
8 The Sino-Soviet dispute over assistance for Vietnam's anti-American war, 1965-1972 / Li Danhui 289
9 The background to the shift in Chinese policy toward the United States in the late 1960s / Niu Jun 319
10 Sino-U.S. reconciliation and China's Vietnam policy / Shen Zhihua 349
11 China and the Cambodian conflict, 1970-1975 / Zhai Qiang 369
12 The Soviet-Chinese-Vietnamese triangle in the 1970s : the view from Moscow / Stephen J. Morris 405
13 Commentary : a Vietnamese scholar's perspective on the communist big powers and Vietnam / Luu Doan Huynh 433
14 Le Duan and the break with China / Stein Tonnesson, Christopher E. Goscha 453
15 Selected conversations of Asian communist leaders on Indochina 487