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The Harvey Goldberg Center for the Study of Contemporary History and the CSEAS Friday Forum Lecture Series

Dr. Kosal Path, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, "Vietnam's Bumpy Road to Economic Renovation or Doi Moi in 1986"

Event Details

Date
Friday, December 7, 2018
Time
12-1:30 p.m.
Location
Description
Drawing on new archival evidence from the Vietnamese archives, the lecture focuses on a political history of how early reformists including former Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach shaped Vietnam “new thinking” about foreign economic relations — a less-ideological and broad-based foreign policy– that culminated in the Doi Mo policy in 1986. Dr. Kosal Path central argument is that the post-1975 economic crisis and Vietnam’s costly engagement in a two-front war in Cambodia and against China undermi
Cost
Free

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