From people's war to people's rule : insurgency, intervention, and the lessons of Vietnam /
Timothy Lomperis argues that the lessons of American involvement in Vietnam are not to be found in any analysis of the war by itself. Rather, he proposes a comparison of the Vietnam experience with seven other cases of Western intervention in communist insurgencies during the Cold War era: China, In...
| Основен автор: | Lomperis, Timothy J., 1947- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
1996.
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From people's war to people's rule. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction. From Ghost to Lesson
- 1. On the Business of Lessons
- 2. Legitimacy, Insurgency, and the International Context of the Vietnam War
- 3. Analytical Framework of Legitimacy, Insurgency, and Intervention
- 4. Historical Setting: The Earthly Struggle for Heaven's Mandate
- 5. Framework Analysis: The War without a Lesson?
- 6. China, 1920-1949: The Long March to Liberation
- 7. Greece, 1941-1949: Three Rounds to Albania
- 8. The Philippines, 1946-1956: Liberation Deflected
- 9. Malaya, 1948-1960: The Unmaking of an Insurgency
- 10. Cambodia's "Autogenocide" and the Disappearance of Laos, 1949-1975
- 11. Findings from the Prism and an Application: Sendero Luminoso of Peru
- Conclusion. The New Era: Wilson's Triumph over Lenin
- Appendix 1. Literatures of the Framework
- Appendix 2. A Tale of Two Strategies: An Alternative Explanation
- Appendix 3. Assumptions, Thematic Questions, and Propositions.