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Intro -- VIETNAMECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RELATIONS WITH THE U.S. -- VIETNAMECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RELATIONS WITH THE U.S. -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 U.S.-VIETNAM RELATIONS IN 2011: CURRENT ISSUES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S. POLICY -- SUMMARY -- MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2011 -- U.S. Ambassador Nominee Held Up over International Adoption Cases -- Sino-Vietnamese Tensions Ebb and Flow over Maritime Claims -- Incremental Developments in the Lower Mekong Initiative -- Human Rights-Repression against Dissent Continues -- Vietnamese Victory in WTO Anti-Dumping Case -- Vietnam's Economic Difficulties Persist -- INTRODUCTION -- U.S. Interests and Goals in the Bilateral Relationship -- Vietnam's Interests and Goals in the Bilateral Relationship -- A Ceiling on the Relationship? -- Congress's Role -- BRIEF HISTORY OF THE NORMALIZATION OF U.S.-VIETNAM RELATIONS -- MAJOR ISSUES IN U.S.-VIETNAM RELATIONS -- Diplomatic Ties -- High Level Visits: Taking Relations to a New Level -- The United States Increases Its Involvement in the South China Sea Dispute -- The Lower Mekong Initiative -- Nuclear Diplomacy -- Economic Ties -- Trade Initiatives: GSP, TIFA, BIT, and TPP -- Trade Friction -- U.S. Foreign Assistance to Vietnam -- Education Exchanges -- Human Rights Issues -- The Obama Administration's Approach to Human Rights in Vietnam -- Background -- Religious Freedom -- Workers' Rights -- The Vietnam Human Rights Act -- Refugees in Cambodia -- Human Trafficking -- Military-to-Military Ties -- Military Assistance -- Background -- Vietnam War ―Legacy‖ Issues -- Agent Orange -- Vietnam War Resettlement Programs -- POW/MIA Issues -- CONDITIONS IN VIETNAM -- Economic Developments -- Vietnam's Economic Troubles of 2007-2011 -- Background -- Controversial Bauxite Plan for Central Highlands -- Vietnam's Politics and Political Structure

Account of his time in Vietnam between April 1968 and March 1970, written by Frederick F. Whitford, possibly in the early 2000s. ; Frederick F. Whitford graduated from Norwich University with the Class of 1966 and served in Vietnam from approximately 1968-1970.

With private higher education emerging in the late 1980s and challenging the public monopoly that had long been the norm in Vietnam, debates arise. Apart from debates common in other countries, such as those related to access, quality, equity, and profit, public–private debates in the Vietnamese case also occur along the line of political correctness, and indirectly reveal policy makers' limited understanding of, and inexperience with the private sector.

Teaching the Vietnam experience as a whole course (D. Pike), S. 144-151; Teaching Vietnam: a critical military analysis (H.G. Summers), S. 152-160; Using and misusing media resources in teaching on Vietnam (P. Braestrup and L. Hiraoka), S. 161-168; Vietnam and the teaching of Congress and foreign policy (S. Tillman), S. 169-180; Vietnam in the curriculum (J. Israel), S. 181-186; Official histories of the war in Vietnam: why they are produced and what is available for classroom use (D.F. Trask), S. 187-194; annotated bibliography by T. Van Klaveren, S. 195-198