Home
Creators
Search Recent Random
Posts
Search DMs Popular Hash Lookup Tags Random
Importer
Import FAQ
Register Favorites Keys Review DMs Logout
Community
Telegram ThePornDude
Home Creators Posts Import Register Favorites Logout

/504/ Vietnam's Victory: American War to Globalisation ft. Sean Fear (Patreon)

Published:
2025-08-05 07:00:08
Imported:
2025-08
Tags:

Downloads

  • 504-vietnam-fear.mp3

Some files exceed the archive size limit and weren't saved: 1 file. Please note these limits are in place to keep this site running long term, without costing a fortune. You can favorite the creator though, certain milestones increase the limit.

Content

On resistance and reform in southeast Asia.

Historian Sean Fear talks to Alex H and Lee Jones about Vietnam on the 50-year anniversary since the end of the war.

How is Vietnamese identity wrapped up with the notion of resistance?

Is Chinese influence as great as resistance to China?

How is the ‘American War’ thought about in Vietnam today?

How similar is Vietnam to China: defying Fukuyama’s thesis by retaining a state-socialist political system while adopting capitalism?

Why has Vietnam achieved rapid growth and development while neighbours have failed?

How is Vietnam reacting to being at the centre of Trump tariff disputes?

Links:

The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975: Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building, Sean Fear, Tuong Vu (eds.), Cornell UP

/115/ Singapore Shangri-La ft. Lee Jones

Post-Cold War Vietnam: stay low, learn, adapt and try to have fun – but what about the party?, Adam Fforde

Files

Comments

jkjkjkj

Fantastic episode, as a huge Southeast Asia head, I’m glad bunga is paying more attention to the region and hope we get many more episodes of similar theme in the future (as well as a reupload of episode 16 with Lee about Aung Saan Suu Kyi). An episode on ASEAN, which Lee and Shaher have written a lot about would be particularly good. The recent border war between Thailand and Cambodia would also be great, and if we want to get really technical maybe something on the SiJoRi growth triangle Beyond the praise, I’d just like to note two things: Firstly, Vietnams growth has been in many ways deeply impressive, but the one feature of its growth that is rarely discussed is how exclusive it has been of its ethnic minority populations. Two separate studies from recent years have found that Vietnamese minorities, despite being 15% of the population, account for 75% of Vietnams poverty. This has been partnered with minorities often handling much of the most brutal resource extractive work in the Vietnamese economy. Secondly, it’s also worth noting that the Vietnamese communists did actually attempt to integrate Vietnam into the global economy as early as the late 1970s. Nayan Chandy wrote about this in his book brother enemy, and makes clear that the CPV attempted to negotiate investment and trade deals with Japan and the European states (particularly France if I remember correctly), but this was prevented by extreme pressure from the United States that likely cost unified Vietnam many of its most formative years of development. Incidentally, this was before the us sanctions on Vietnam following its invasion of Cambodia, something which effectively outcasted it from the global economy