Brother Enemy; The War After the War
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 479, [1] pages. Maps. Cast of Characters. Chronology of Events. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Black mark on top edge. Nayan Chanda (born 1946 in India) is the founder and editor-in-chief of YaleGlobal Online, an online magazine that publishes articles about globalization. The magazine launched in 2001. Control of the magazine was transferred in 2013 from the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization to the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. He had served as a correspondent and editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review and has co-authored numerous books on Southeast Asian affairs and globalization. He is best known for his 1986 book Brother Enemy: The War After the War, which details the events leading up to the outbreak of the Cambodian–Vietnamese War (also known as the "Third Indochina War") in the context of the Cold War that had divided the world. He was a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Derived from a Kirkus review: A firsthand report on the history of Indochina since the fall of Saigon in 1975. Chanda displays a tinge of irony throughout these pages, as he demonstrates how, though the US expected a blood bath in Vietnam following a Communist victory, in actuality, Vietnam soon became isolated among nations of the area, hated by both Cambodia and China, which sees Vietnam as "the Prussia of Asia." So desperate did Vietnam become that by 1977, it frantically sought diplomatic relations with Washington. Chanda sees the area fraught with varying degrees of misunderstanding. Vietnam must, he says, accept China's regional interest, just as China must accept Vietnam's security interests in Cambodia. And speaking of Cambodia, that state's traditional role as buffer state in the region is no longer possible, so weak has it become following Poi Pot's excesses. As this region is freshly reexamined, Brother Enemy will offer a fine guide to its power politics. A solid recap. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Balance of Power, Brzezinski, Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, ASEAN, Vietnam, Deng Xiaoping, Richard Holbrooke, Indochina, Sihanouk, Kampuchea, Pol Pot, Refugees, Cyrus Vance, Leonard Woodcock, Normalization, MIA
ISBN: 0151144206
[Book #77229]
Price: $45.00