Suchergebnisse

Die Entwicklung des Dritten Indochinakriegs wird unter starker Berücksichtigung der historischen wie der zeitgeschichtlichen Dimension untersucht. Insbesondere das Kambodscha-Problem wird ins Zentrum der Betrachtung gerückt. Die Interessenlagen Chinas, der Sowjetunion, der USA und der ASEAN-Staaten an Lösungswegen für die Krise werden aufgezeigt. Die annehmbaren Verhaltens- und Reaktionsweisen des vietnamesischen Imperialismus werden prognostiziert. (SWP-Shn)

Some emphasis on the effect of U.S., Chinese, Soviet, and ASEAN policies in the region.

The main aim of this paper is to search for solutions to the China-Vietnam-Indochina conflict. It is not meant to apportion blame or to look for scapegoats. Nor is it meant to prescribe solutions. Rather, the emphasis is on an open and reflective discussion of the elements and the dynamics of the conflict, its historical background and possible alternatives in the light of the peace research theory. The concern is with the fate of the peoples of the region and the possible escalatory international implications. The search is therefore for political as against military solutions, and for a creative transcendence of the conflict of interests as against conflict reproducing violent options. The resolution of the conflict is seen within the framework of a policy of nonalignment and neutrality of the Indochinese nations, and the strategy proposed would rely on a dynamic continuum from initial dissociative low interaction to high associative cooperation between China and Vietnam.

In the past eight years, one of the most observable trends in international affairs has been the hardening of the schism between the then five countries that made up ASEAN (Brunei joined in early 1984, thus becoming the sixth member) on the one hand and Vietnam on the other. After the Vietnamese intervention in Democratic Kampuchea in December 1978 and January 1979, the ASEAN countries in general and Thailand in particular were forced to find ways and means of coping with the Vietnamese troops in Laos and Kampuchea. The author examines the implications of the Indochina conflict from the point of view of Thailand. Thai diplomacy toward Vietnam. Increase in its defence expenditures, 1975-82. (DÜI-Sen)