Center for Southeast Asian Studies Friday Forum Lecture Series

2015 is shaping up as a momentously political year in Vietnam. Factionalized and more reactionary than revolutionary, the Vietnamese Communist Party is preparing to convene its 12th Party Congress in January 2016. The 87 million Vietnamese who are not Party members are watching hopefully. Leaving aside a vocal but quite small bunch of dissidents, they're not restive. The average Vietnamese feels that Vietnam had quite enough chaos in the last century.