Les colonisations du Viet Nam et le colonialisme vietnamien
In: Études internationales: revue trimestrielle, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 545-571
ISSN: 0014-2123
What makes Viet Nam unique is its social organization based on a loosely knit network of villages with deep and strong relations capable of repelling intruders and invading neighbors. Here, Chinese civilization has contributed to a new nation assimilating the model and resisting the domination. The history of Viet Nam reveals a front of modest and primitive villages advancing from one delta to the next, from the Gulf of Tonkin to the Gulf of Siam, "vietnamizing" nature and the peoples on its passage by the plow and the sword. The present Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia, in this perspective, may be both a "prelude" to the continuation of this advancing front of villages, resulting in a confrontation between Viet Nam and Thailand for the leadership of South East Asia - and a "fugue" for warring Viet Nam to solve its political and economic problems. (International Political Science Assoc.)