vietnam – American Political Theorist

How did outside powers internationalize the First Indochina War?

As happened with great frequency throughout the twentieth century, the warring parties in the First Indochina War were bound by political expediency and reinforced by ideologicalrigidities to larger or creditor world powers that promised to protect these reliant nations with which collective defensive relations or an alliance treaty had been established. While Chinese nationalists andContinue reading “How did outside powers internationalize the First Indochina War?”

Why were Vietnamese intellectuals attracted to socialist or Bolshevik ideas?

Marx’s theory of economic development is a very popular understanding of economic theory that has often been adopted by potentially capable politicians, and often incapable tyrants, to inspire support for a regime run by their favored network of intelligentsia. In its essence, Marxism views human development through a lens that weighs economic competition within aContinue reading “Why were Vietnamese intellectuals attracted to socialist or Bolshevik ideas?”