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Published: 10 April 2013
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Published: 12 June 2013
...In examining the US Army’s counterinsurgency campaign in Vietnam, this chapter provides a firm foundation for the chapters that follow by highlighting how the US Army’s institutional relationship with counterinsurgency evolved as the war wore on. Crucially, Army counterinsurgency doctrine shifted...
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Published online: 26 September 2013
Published in print: 12 June 2013
...This book details the relationship between the US Army’s counterinsurgency doctrine and its changing lessons of Vietnam. The US Army, battered by its experience in Vietnam, radically reshaped its institutional identity after the war. To do so, they had to contend with the lessons of Vietnam...
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Published: 08 January 2014
... concerning the legality of the war in Vietnam. Abu Ghraib prison Calley William L Jr Detention Guantanamo Bay prison Haeberle Ron Hersh Seymour M Iraq War Life magazine My Lai massacre New Yorker New York Times Terrorists Torture United States War on terrorism Falk Richard Vietnam War Jus ad...
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Published: 03 April 2008
...This chapter describes that the transmission of statistics on baptisms was a crucial aspect in the appeal for funding back in France for mission work in places such as Vietnam. The year 1841 emphasizes a turning point in the Cochinchina mission's fortunes after the trials of the Minh Mạng...
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Published: 26 March 2019
... to band together to fight the North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao, it was not until the United States got involved that the Hmong became an influential factor in the Laotian conflict. Cambodia communism Dien Bien Phu Eisenhower Dwight France Geneva Accords Laos North Vietnam NVA and Pathet Lao troops...
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Published: 26 February 2014
...This chapter focuses on China and Vietnam--two countries whose political context and transition trajectory differ from those of the other six. The case of China deserves special attention due to the country's sheer size: it is particularly challenging to create a credit card market in a country...
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Published: 01 May 2013
...This chapter considers the context of South Korea’s involvement in the Vietnam War through the nation’s anti-parasite campaigns (1969-early 1990s), which sought to eliminate the giant roundworm, or Ascaris Lumbricoides. Cleansing the body of intestinal parasites provided South Korea...
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Published online: 20 June 2013
Published in print: 18 August 2011
... in Malaysia and Thailand, but also includes comparisons with the Philippines and Vietnam. It shows how Malaysia and Vietnam have had the requisite institutional capacity and power to advance equitable development, while Thailand and the Philippines, because of weaker institutions, have not achieved the same...
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Published: 18 August 2011
... role in shaping outcomes of development. It provides a structured comparison of Malaysia and Thailand, two relatively similar countries, and compares them to the case of the Philippines and Vietnam. The central thesis of this study is that institutional power and capacity, along with pragmatic ideology...
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Published: 03 April 2008
... Vietnam for their political role in the recent colonial past. The historicization of religious violence and social change is crucial for a more nuanced perspective on the dramatic shifts in the region's political and social identities. Finally, an overview of the chapters included in this book is given...
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Published: 03 April 2008
... on social matters down to the village level. Few missionaries provoked as much controversy in the debate on precolonial Vietnam as Joseph Marchand. Marchand's presence in the rebellion brought the mission presence to the forefront of court attention, and vindicating Minh Mạng's initial hostility toward...
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Published: 10 September 2014
...The introduction questions why powerful empires often run aground in small, poor, and fragmented regions, case in point being the Tabasco. Like Vietnam, Afghanistan, and northern Scotland, this riverine province of Mexico has resisted one outside intervention after another. Part of the answer lies...
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Published: 30 January 2009
...Stanford University cooperated with the U.S. government in the preparation for the Vietnam War, mainly by establishing fallout shelters that provided necessities such as food, first aid, and radiological-monitoring equipment. In addition to the war, student activism also focused on civil rights...
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Published: 10 December 2019
...When Cassius Clay became heavyweight boxing champion in 1964, no one expected him to take political stands. Yet he joined the controversial Nation of Islam and, within a few years, refused to be drafted into the US Army, for which he was convicted in federal court. Ali’s opposition to the Vietnam...
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Published: 10 December 2019
... Communism Communists cultural Cold War Geneva Accords 1954 “imagined reality ” Kampuchea Cambodia Laos Malaya Malaysia Masuda Hajimu neutralist nations North Vietnam Philippines SEATO Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Singapore social realities production of Southeast Asia Vietnam anti...
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Published: 23 May 2012
... were already becoming politicized by the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s. They were to be dramatically radicalized by the Vietnam War, the draft, and the antiwar movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In between, there was a major crisis at Berkeley, paralleled in many...
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Published online: 20 June 2013
Published in print: 03 April 2008
...This book examines the rise of anti-Catholic hostility in early nineteenth-century Vietnam under the Nguyễn dynasty. French missionaries have long been blamed for the destabilization of dynastic Vietnam and the anti-Catholic violence that preceded the French invasion in 1858, but the focus...
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Published: 23 January 2013
... end of “gold standard” for agreements Jordan danger of proliferation from KAERI Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute KEPCo Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute KAERI Mitsubishi 123 Agreements Russia USSR Turkey uranium countries with natural uranium reserves Vietnam aspiring states...
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Published: 18 August 2011
...This chapter, which compares equitable development in the Philippines and Vietnam, examines how the Philippines has historically been plagued by weak institutions that have denied it the potential for growth and equity. It describes how a highly institutionalized political party in Vietnam has...