Title

Explaining Recent Vietnamese Behavior

Abstract

In the preceding sections, we have argued that, while a number of perspectives are relevant to the recent Vietnamese-Cambodian conflict, independent Vietnamese pursuit of their own long-term goals is probably the most important and provides the key to understanding and to explaining not only Vietnamese actions vis-à-vis Cambodia, but also their behavior in Indochina and Southeast Asia as a whole. Our contention then led to a more specific identification of probable Vietnamese fundamental and instrumental goals. Support for our line of argument was obtained by examining eight categories of possible motivations that might be relevant to Vietnamese pursuit of this set of (fundamental) goals. Here, one task remains: based on our earlier analysis and discussion, what path(s) can we reasonably expect SRV defense and foreign policy behavior to follow in the near future? While we believe that our pursuit-of-goals proposition will remain the key to understanding and to explaining Vietnamese behavior, equally important in its prediction will be the environment in which the SRV will operate. For analytical purposes, this environment can be dichotomized. The internal environment is concerned with the SRV's potential. © 1980, by The Regents of the University of California. All Right Resereved

Publication Date

1-1-1980

Publication Title

Asian Survey

Volume

20

Issue

9

Number of Pages

931-942

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.2307/2643738

Socpus ID

84968176145 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84968176145

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