Vietnam: Navigating a Rapidly Changing Economy, Society, and Political Order (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
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Boerje Ljunggren (Contributor) Dwight H. Perkins (Contributor)
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In the late 1980s, most of the world still associated Vietnam with resistance and war, hardship, refugees, and a mismanaged planned economy. During the 1990s, by contrast, major countries began to see Vietnam as both a potential partner and a strategically significant actor-particularly in the competition between the United States and an emerging China-and international investors began to see Vietnam as a land of opportunity.
Vietnam remains a Leninist party-state ruled by the Communist Party of Vietnam that has reconciled the supposedly irreconcilable: a one-party system and a market-based economy linked to global value chains. For the Party stability is crucial and, recently, increasing economic openness has been combined with growing political control and repression.
This book, undertaken by scholars from Vietnam, North America, and Europe, focuses on how the country's governance shapes its politics, economy, social development, and relations with the outside world, as well as on the reforms required if Vietnam is to become a sustainable and modern high-income nation in the coming decades.
Despite the challenges, including systemic ones, the authors remain optimistic about Vietnam's future, noting the evident vitality of a determined society. 32 color illus., 34 tables
About the Author
Boerje Ljunggren is an Associate at Harvard University's Asia Center and Senior Associate Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Dwight H. Perkins is Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, at Harvard University.
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- Contributor: Boerje Ljunggren
- Imprint: Harvard University Press
- ISBN13: 9780674291331
- Number of Pages: 452
- Packaged Dimensions: 178x254mm
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Release Date: 2023-06-20
- Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Boerje Ljunggren is an Associate at Harvard University's Asia Center and Senior Associate Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Dwight H. Perkins is Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, at Harvard University.
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