A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement

di Pierre Asselin (Autore)

The University of North Carolina Press, 2002

Demonstrating the centrality of diplomacy in the Vietnam War, Pierre Asselin traces the secret negotiations that led up to the Paris Agreement of 1973, which ended America's involvement but failed to bring peace to Vietnam. Because the two sides signed the agreement under duress, the peace it promised was doomed to unravel. By January of 1973, the continuing military stalemate and mounting difficulties on the domestic front forced both Washington and Hanoi to conclude that signing a vague and largely unworkable peace agreement as the most expedient way to achieve their most pressing objectives. For Washington, those objectives included the release of American prisoners, military withdrawl without formal capitulation, ad preservation of American credibility in the Cold War. Hanoi, on the other hand, sought to secure the removal of American forces, protect the socialist revolution in the North, and improve the prospects for reunification with the South. Using newly available archive sources from Vietnam, the USA and Canada, Pierre Asselin reconstructs the secret negotiations, highlighting the creative roles of Hanoi, the National Liberation Front, and Saigon in constructing the final settlement.

• Autore: Pierre Asselin
• Editore: The University of North Carolina Press
• Collana: The New Cold War History
• Anno: 2002
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 304 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 156 mm
• Peso: 424 gr.
• EAN: 9780807854174

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