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The rise and fall of the Second Republic: Domestic politics and civil society in U.S.-South Vietnamese relations, 1967-1971.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The rise and fall of the Second Republic: Domestic politics and civil society in U.S.-South Vietnamese relations, 1967-1971./
Author:	Fear, Sean.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	266 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-02A(E).
Subject:	Modern history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10171394
ISBN:	9781369254310

The rise and fall of the Second Republic: Domestic politics and civil society in U.S.-South Vietnamese relations, 1967-1971.
Fear, Sean.

The rise and fall of the Second Republic: Domestic politics and civil society in U.S.-South Vietnamese relations, 1967-1971. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 266 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 2016.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Although an enormous volume of scholarship has been devoted to the Vietnam War, most accounts focus on American experiences and perspectives, drawing almost entirely on American sources. Consulting newly-accessible official South Vietnamese government records, Vietnamese-language memoirs and historical accounts, and Saigon's raucous and at times relatively free press, this study demonstrates the centrality of the struggle for political legitimacy in South Vietnam to the overall outcome of the conflict. It examines the impact of the South Vietnamese state's failure to win legitimacy in the eyes of its diverse anti-communist political and religious groups, and combines traditional state-centered foreign relations history with attention to the diplomatic implications of domestic politics and civil society, fusing the "high politics" of statecraft with local and social history. This challenges the conventional view of the Cold War as a binary ideological clash between rival blocs of superpowers and like-minded local allies. Instead, this study reveals how external Cold War presumptions were repurposed and manipulated by diverse Vietnamese actors pursuing complex domestic goals, often rendering the superpowers incapable of comprehending much less choreographing their presumed proxies.

ISBN: 9781369254310Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122829
Modern history.

The rise and fall of the Second Republic: Domestic politics and civil society in U.S.-South Vietnamese relations, 1967-1971.
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