Danny and Derek chat with Brian Cuddy, lecturer in security studies at Macquarie University, and Fredrik Logevall, Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, about the eponymous collection of essays they co-edited, which examines the lasting impact of the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia and the wider Pacific. They discuss how the regional dynamics shaped the course of the war, what taking a regional perspective illuminates, the current state of the politics of Vietnam historiography, and more.
The Vietnam War is yet another US foreign policy disaster (major crime) that has mostly been erased from American memory. The perpetrators were forgiven or forgotten and in no time we were running our mouths about the IRBO.
Thoughtful questions and interesting guests. Another winner.
The Vietnam War is yet another US foreign policy disaster (major crime) that has mostly been erased from American memory. The perpetrators were forgiven or forgotten and in no time we were running our mouths about the IRBO.
Thoughtful questions and interesting guests. Another winner.