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China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry

By Brantly Womack

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0521853206, 9780521853200
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3377724 bytes)
Pages
296\297
Time added
2013-12-18 09:04:09

Description

In their three thousand years of interaction, China and Vietnam have been through a full range of relationships. Throughout all these fluctuations the one constant has been that China is always the larger power, and Vietnam the smaller. Yet China has rarely been able to dominate Vietnam, and the relationship is shaped by its asymmetry. The Sino-Vietnamese relationship provides the perfect ground for developing and exploring the effects of asymmetry on international relations. Womack develops his theory in conjunction with an original analysis of the interaction between China and Vietnam from the Bronze Age to the present.

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