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V ietnam's Domestic–Foreign Policy Nexus: D oi M oi , Foreign Policy Reform, and S ino‐ V ietnamese Normalization
Author(s) -
Hiep Le Hong
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
asian politics and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1943-0787
pISSN - 1943-0779
DOI - 10.1111/aspp.12035
Subject(s) - nexus (standard) , normalization (sociology) , economics , political science , sociology , engineering , anthropology , embedded system
This article examines the link between V ietnam's adoption of the D oi M oi (renovation) policy and transformations in its C hina policy in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a case study of the domestic–foreign policy nexus. The article argues that during this period, changes in V ietnam's foreign policy in general and its C hina policy in particular originated first and foremost from the V ietnamese C ommunist P arty's ( VCP ) domestic agenda of promoting economic reform and protecting the regime's survival. As the VCP considered hostile relations with C hina as detrimental to both its economic reform and regime security, it strived to mend relations with C hina as quickly as possible. Against this backdrop, V ietnam made a number of important concessions to C hina regarding the C ambodian issue in order to accelerate the normalization process, which eventually concluded in late 1991.