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Vietnam’s New Order
International Perspectives on
the State and Reform in Vietnam
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C O N T E N T S
List of Tables and Figures vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
Stéphanie Balme and Mark Sidel
One Vietnam in a Comparative Communist
and Postcommunist Perspective 11
Leslie Holmes
Part I International Relations and
Regional Integration
Two Vietnam’s Regional Integration: Domestic and
External Challenges to State Sovereignty 31
Carlyle A. Thayer
Three Testing the Institutionalist Approach: Cooperation
between Vietnam and ASEAN 51
Nguyen Vu Tung
Four Vietnam’s Border Disputes––Assessing the Impact on
Its Regional Integration 71
Ramses Amer and Nguyen Hong Thao
Five Vietnam’s International Commitments upon
Entry into the WTO: Limits to Its Sovereignty?
A View from Moscow 88
Vladimir Mazyrin
vi Contents
Six Economic Interdependence within ASEAN: A
Perspective on the Vietnamese Strategy for
Development and National Security 104
Hien Do
Seven Vietnam’s Integration into the World:
National and Global Interfaces 119
Eero Palmujoki
Part II Law, Legal Reform, and the
Vietnamese State
Eight Understanding Legality in Vietnam 137
John Gillespie
Nine Lawyers and Prosecutors under Legal Reform
in Vietnam: The Problem of Equality 162
Nguyen Hung Quang
Ten Vietnamese Courts: Contemporary Interactions
between Party-State and Law 178
Penelope (Pip) Nicholson
Eleven Power and Representation at the Vietnamese
National Assembly: The Scope and Limits of
Political Doi Moi 198
Matthieu Salomon
Twelve Modern Law, Traditional Ethics, and Contemporary
Political Legitimacy in Vietnam 217
David Koh
Thirteen Building Blocks for the Rule of Law? Legal Reforms
and Public Administration in Vietnam 237
Karin Buhmann
Notes on Contributors 254
Index 259
L I S T O F T A B L E S A N D F I G U R E S
Tables
1.1 Vietnam’s imports from selected partners 1980–2004 12
1.2 Vietnam’s exports to selected partners 1980–2004 12
1.3 Vietnam’s corruption score in the TI Corruption
Perceptions Index 18
1.4 Vietnam’s average annual growth rate
over four quinquennia 20
6.1 Vietnam’s exports to the world 113
9.1 Acquittals in the Vietnamese judicial process,
1999–2002 171
Figures
10.1 Formal political and administrative structure of Vietnam 180
10.2 Total number of cases accepted by the courts 188
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A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S
This volume is primarily the product of two conferences on contemporary
Vietnam convened by the Research Group on Contemporary Vietnam
of the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) at
Sciences Po in the fall of 2003 and 2004.
The editors are grateful to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
the Embassy of France in Hanoi for their continuing financial support of
the Research Group since its founding by Benoît de Tréglodé in
2000. The Research Group on Contemporary Vietnam was originally a
joint project between Sciences Po, la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme
and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). The
Group, which took shape under the aegis of Jean-Luc Domenach, seeks
to give a new impetus to research on contemporary Vietnam in Europe
with a focus on strengthening the rich French heritage of studies on
Vietnam, encouraging interdisciplinary study and providing a meeting
ground for the new generation of scholars of Vietnam. In addition to
organizing annual international conferences, the group also provides
financial assistance to scholars for translations of research and fieldwork
in Vietnam.
This volume brings together the work and perspectives of sixteen
scholars from Australia, Denmark, Finland, France, Russia, Singapore,
Sweden, the United States, and Vietnam, and reflects the Research
Group’s commitment to advancing French and international research on
Vietnam. We are also particularly grateful to Christopher Goscha, a
prominent specialist on Vietnam, professor at the Université du Québec
à Montréal (UQAM), and co-director of the Research Group.
At the 2003 conference, we were honored by the presence of Nguyen
Van Binh, director of the Maison du droit Vietnamo-Française in
Hanoi, Professor Monique Chemillier-Gendreau (Paris 7), and Professor
Monique Sélim (IRD). We are thankful for their contributions.
