This volume brings together distinguished international specialists on Vietnam and its reform process to explore the impact of reform in Vietnam on the Vietnamese state, society, and order, and Vietnam's international and regional environment.

Stephanie Balme is tenured Research Fellow at Sciences Po.Mark Sidel is Professor of Law at the University of Iowa.

List of Tables and Figures

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Acknowledgements

ix

Introduction

1

(10)

Stéphanie Balme and Mark Sidel

One Vietnam in a Comparative Communist and Postcommunist Perspective

11

(20)

Leslie Holmes

Part I International Relations and Regional Integration

Two Vietnam's Regional Integration: Domestic and External Challenges to State Sovereignty

31

(20)

Carlyle A. Thayer

Three Testing the Institutionalist Approach: Cooperation between Vietnam and ASEAN

51

(20)

Nguyen Vu Tung

Four Vietnam's Border Disputes—Assessing the Impact on Its Regional Integration

71

(17)

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

(16)

Vladimir Mazyrin

Six Economic Interdependence within ASEAN: A Perspective on the Vietnamese Strategy for Development and National Security

104

(15)

Hien Do

Seven Vietnam's Integration into the World: National and Global Interfaces

119

(18)

Eero Palmujoki

Part II Law, Legal Reform, and the Vietnamese State

Eight Understanding Legality in Vietnam

137

(25)

John Gillespie

Nine Lawyers and Prosecutors under Legal Reform in Vietnam: The Problem of Equality

162

(16)

Nguyen Hung Quang

Ten Vietnamese Courts: Contemporary Interactions between Party-State and Law

178

(20)

Penelope (Pip) Nicholson

Eleven Power and Representation at the Vietnamese National Assembly: The Scope and Limits of Political Doi Moi

198

(19)

Matthieu Salomon

Twelve Modern Law, Traditional Ethics, and Contemporary Political Legitimacy in Vietnam

217

(20)

David Koh

Thirteen Building Blocks for the Rule of Law? Legal Reforms and Public Administration in Vietnam

237

(17)

Karin Buhmann

Notes on Contributors

254

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Index

259

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