Politics In Vietnam Research Articles

Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands. By Seb Rumsby

Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands. By Seb Rumsby

Improving the Legal System in Accordance With the Requirements for Building a Socialist Rule-Of-Law State in Vietnam

Objective: This study aims to contribute further discussions on solutions to enhance the quality of the legal system in the context of Vietnam advancing to stage 2 (stage 1 being the quantitative aspect) of the process of perfecting its legal system. Theoretical Framework: This research adopts the ROCCIPI model theory to identify several solutions for improving the Vietnamese legal system within the context of the requirements for building a rule-of-law state in Vietnam, as embodied in Resolution No. 27. Research Methods: This paper employs methods such as the analysis of written laws, document analysis, and comparative analysis. Results and Conclusion: The research results indicate that after prolonged efforts to build a legal system almost from scratch, Vietnam now has a legal framework and procedural system that covers most social relations, gradually replacing arbitrary measures previously imposed by public entities. However, the Vietnamese legal documents system exhibits numerous inadequacies and lacks stability. One of the causes is the involvement of multiple intermediaries in the law-making process, leading to a multi-layered legal system with various procedures (often referred to as "sub-licenses") that interfere with the effectiveness of regulations. Despite modernization efforts, Vietnam's legislative techniques have not significantly improved the quality of legal documents. Therefore, this study proposes solutions focusing on addressing these issues based on the ROCCIPI model approach, which the author believes is suitable for Vietnam's political and legislative realities. Research Implications: This study is set against the backdrop of the Communist Party's continued emphasis on legal formalization, reflecting a consistent policy direction towards building a state that upholds the rule of law. The author agrees that building and perfecting the legal system in any country must begin with an awareness of the law's position and role in social life, from the perspective of the entity controlling and regulating society. Therefore, this research, premised on the consistent guiding capacity of the Communist Party and the State of Vietnam in the legislative process, will discuss ways to progressively perfect the legislative process with strong leadership and constructive roles from these two entities. Originality/Value: Since the promulgation of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents in 2008 , issues regarding efficiency, rationality, inflation, and overlap of legal documents have not been resolved. Numerous studies have identified causes, consequences, and proposed legislative solutions to optimize the legislative process and establish a legal life for the documents. The contribution of this study, beginning with a hypothesis about the strong regulatory role of political and social management entities, with an awareness of the law's role in this process, will provide solutions focusing on three aspects of the legislative process: reducing intermediary layers between rules and social life; continuing to emphasize the stability of rules with the central regulatory role of the state; and finally, the techniques of drafting documents, which can be frequently adjusted to meet the two aforementioned objectives.

Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands, written by Seb Rumsby

Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands, written by Seb Rumsby

Building the civic consciousness of the socialist rule of law in Vietnam nowadays

Vietnam is implementing global socio-economic integration, so the law must also be renovated to meet the requirements of international integration. Because the law is attached to the country's institutions, it shows the consistency in Vietnam's politics, economy, and diplomacy. In the world, the rule of law is a typical value that humanity aims for because it upholds the law, expressing our nation's aspiration for a democratic and equal society. Therefore, Vietnam has built a socialist rule of law. To achieve this, Vietnam must ensure the free power of its citizens, promote the democracy of the state, and ensure that power belongs to the people. The paper uses a materialist dialectical method to examine the building of civic consciousness that promotes the perfection of Vietnam's current socialist rule of law. At the same time, the article also uses analytical methods and synthetic methods to clarify the sense of citizenship in the Vietnamese state, Vietnam's political institutions, and the development of the socialist rule of law is correct.

‘Isn’t It a Bit Rough?’ – Vietnamese Audience Reception of Wrist-grabbing in Korean Television Dramas, Feminist Consciousness, and Fantasy

Over the past two decades, Korean television drama (K-drama), which stands at the forefront of the Korean Wave, the popularisation of South Korean pop culture worldwide, has raised controversy over male characters’ sexist and patriarchal behaviours. At the centre of such controversy is the trope of wrist-grabbing, characterised by a man’s attempt to grasp a woman’s wrist to drag her to another place and force a conversation. Previous studies about international fans have revealed strong disapproving reactions, especially from feminist-identified viewers. This article on Vietnamese audience reception showed variations: some enjoyed wrist-grabbing, some condemned the act, while others exhibited ambivalence. These varied responses expose many influencing factors: Confucian-inflected patriarchal values, feminist discourses, lived experiences, and suspension of disbelief in media consumption. This analysis of the audience readings of fiction reveals some truth about gender politics in Vietnam, including a certain level of patriarchal celebration and weak feminist consciousness. The article contributes to contemporary Vietnamese studies, gender studies, research of the Korean Wave, and media audience research.

The Art of Not Being Freshened: The Everyday Politics of Infrastructure in the Mekong Delta

With the growing threat of climate change, states are increasingly turning to large-scale infrastructure projects in order to control environmental conditions, especially in coastal areas. These projects are often planned and implemented in a centralized, top-down manner and sometimes fail to achieve their stated objectives in the face of “everyday resistance” from local residents and farmers. This study draws on interviews and secondary research to examine the contentious everyday politics of infrastructure in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam, focusing specifically on how small-scale, surreptitious acts of “counter-infrastructuring” on the part of farmers, such as the construction of illicit wells and shrimp ponds, have undermined the top-down policy of “freshening” the coastal zone through the construction of large water-control works (namely, the Ba Lai dam). By elucidating the motives for farmer resistance, which are primarily economic rather than explicitly political, and the covert and largely uncoordinated means farmers employ to resist and subvert state infrastructure, this study contributes to our understanding of environmental politics in Vietnam and more broadly, with implications for the future viability of large-scale infrastructure projects, such as those aimed at adapting to climate change and sea-level rise in coastal regions.

Learners' intrinsic motivation to participate in a political science program

In Vietnam, middle or high-ranking leaders and managers are required to have knowledge of politics. Those who hold leadership roles in both the private and public sectors should master a solid knowledge of political science. This study was conducted to learn about the intrinsic motivation of learners in Vietnam towards participating in an advanced political science program for future leaders. The study found that learners' intrinsic motivation to participate in a political science program is influenced by their interest in the subject matter, their belief in its relevance to their lives, and their desire to develop critical thinking skills. Additionally, the study identifies a number of factors that can enhance or detract from learners' intrinsic motivation, including teaching methods, course content, and assessment practices. A questionnaire designed with a quantitative method was used to collect data from 91 future leaders who were studying advanced politics at an academy of politics in Vietnam. The results show that they were highly motivated to participate in this program (M = 4.19). Perceived interest or enjoyment (M = 4.58), effort (M = 4.59), perceptions of the program values (M = 4.54), and relatedness (M = 4.54) were encouraging them to learn political science. Moreover, the learners did not experience any pressure or anxiety while taking part in this program (M = 2.46). This study shows that even though most people think political science is dry and mechanical, there are ways to keep learners motivated to learn.

Ensuring the Rights of Vulnerable Groups in the Legislative Process in Vietnam

In recent years, Vietnam has actively and vigorously developed and strengthened law enforcement and facilitated access to the law to protect human rights and legitimate interests. After formulating the Judicial Reform Strategy and implementing the law, the State has created favourable conditions for vulnerable groups to participate in Vietnam's political, social, economic, and cultural life. However, it still faces challenges in ensuring and facilitating access to the law and raising legal awareness. In particular, women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and children are the most vulnerable groups. Therefore, this article focuses on the guarantee of the rights of vulnerable groups in the process of law-making in Vietnam today to unveil difficulties and limitations; on that basis, it makes proposals for ensuring the rights of vulnerable groups in the legislative process in the coming time.
 Keywords: Human Rights, Rights of Vulnerable Groups, Law-making

Разработка корпорацией РЭНД практических рекомендаций для вооруженных сил США во Вьетнаме на основе анализа опыта борьбы Японии с манчжурскими повстанцами

Introduction. Recently, the interest of representatives of the expert and scientific community has been growing in the transformations of one of the most famous practices of rebel activity after the Second World War – the Maoist model of people’s war. Its interpretations in the framework of expert support for the foreign policy activities of the USA are prompted with great attention and caution not only to the role of methodological restrictions, disciplinary filters, the intellectual climate and relations with customers of analytic products of this kind. No less important, as this article shows, are the transfers of ideas and practical experience – the usual debate about the export of democratic and socialist models of development during the Cold War often consists of a scientific discussion on the periphery of the question of the importance of exporting the Chinese model of people’s war in the history of international relations after 1945. Methods and materials. Interdisciplinarity is the feature of research. The search for the political connotations in the RAND reports wrote during the Cold War and devoted to the experience of counterinsurgency in Manchuria during the 1930s demanded the use of the methods practiced by the historical and political sciences simultaneously. Analysis. Accordingly, particular attention was paid to the peculiarities of expert support for decision-making in the United States at the initial stage of the Cold War in the context of the RAND activities, which in the framework of cooperation with the Ministry of Defense practically monopolized the analytical support of American politics in Vietnam and South-East Asia as a whole in the organization of counterinsurgency in the 1960s. The focus of the research is the study by RAND experts of the historical experience of previous powers on the example of forms and methods of anti-insurgency activities of the leadership of the Manchukuo and Kwantung army in Manchuria which reveals both the phenomenon and the causes of the distortion of historical realities of the Interbellum era during the Cold War. Results. The RAND experts thought that the Chinese case of the Interbellum offered the answers on two major questions of tactics and strategy of counterinsurgency in the “Third world”: on the enemy, as well as on the ways and methods to crush him. But methodological self-containment lessened critical value of that memorandum and made it more easer the infiltration of the key ideas about the Chinese model of the people’s war widely presented in the government, military and political circles of the USA during the 1960s into the research made by the RAND Corporation experts.

THE EVENTS OF 1978 IN VIETNAMESE DIPLOMACY: ANALYSES AND LESSONS FOR TODAY’S SMALL-TO-MEDIUM SIZED COUNTRIES

ABSTRACT The events of 1978 shaped much of Viet Nam's political and economic environment for more than a decade. After the triumph of the war for national independence in 1975, Viet Nam hoped for a new era of sustained peace and economic development. However, soon after, in 1978, Viet Nam found itself bogged down in another war against the Khmer Rouge to the West, defending against a surprise Chinese invasion to the North and bearing the brunt of economic sanctions from the U.S. and allies. Viet Nam's sole lifeline was economic and military aid from the Soviet bloc. Economic and political isolation crippled the country's economy and continued until Viet Nam launched comprehensive reforms in 1986 and withdrew from Cambodia in 1989. Given the critical importance of the events in 1978 and their consequences, this piece aims to review the happenings, their causes and lessons learned for contemporary diplomacy, particularly for small-to-medium sized countries.

Establishing Socialist Democracy in Vietnam in the Renovation Period

The purpose of this study is to learn about the establishment of socialist democracy in Vietnam during the renovation period in Vietnam. This study focuses on analyzing theoretical and practical bases; evaluating and analyzing new contents and problems posed in the perception of socialist democracy and establishing socialist democracy in Vietnam through 35 years of renovation. In this study, the author makes two hypotheses: 1/ The theories and practices of establishing socialist democracy in Vietnam during the renovation period shows that the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese people are right; 2/ The establishment of socialist democracy in Vietnam today has achieved many great achievements. Besides these achievements, there are also problems with establishing socialist democracy in our country in the renovation period. The results of the study show that building and perfecting the socialist rule-of-law State, renovating and democratizing the organization and operation of the political system under the leadership of the Party are the conditions for exercising socialist democracy in terms of politics in Vietnam. Besides, developing a socialist-oriented market economy also creates favorable conditions for establishing socialist democracy in the economic field. In addition, it is necessary to build and develop an advanced Vietnamese culture imbued with national identity, unity in diversity, national characteristics, humanity, and science are actual conditions for exercising socialist democracy in the field of culture in Vietnam. To obtain the research objectives, the author has used scientific research methods such as analysis and synthesis, deductive and inductive, abstraction and generalization, logic, history, and comparison to come to the findings and recommendations of the study.

From wartime loudspeakers to digital networks: communist persuasion and pandemic politics in Vietnam

This commentary discusses the overall propaganda win of the Vietnamese government for its COVID-19 success and reveals the underlying logics of communist legitimacy in the wake of digital and biological virality.

Ho Chi Minh's thought on Gender Equality in the Field of Politics in Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh's thought on Gender Equality in the Field of Politics in Vietnam

Blogging Three Ways in Vietnam's Political Blogosphere

This article discusses the dynamism of Vietnam's social media landscape by identifying three kinds of blogging and the different political views espoused by Vietnamese bloggers. This classification is based on a thematic analysis of blog postings, media discussions and semi-structured interviews conducted in 2013–15. The author's mapping of Vietnam's blogosphere demonstrates four features: first, the growth of political blogs; second, how the blogosphere has become an arena for competing political ideologies; third, the utilization of blogs by various factions within the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) to serve their own interests; and fourth, blogs as an important source of independent news and information. Understanding political blogs in Vietnam today helps us understand how Vietnamese bloggers maximize online freedom of speech, the zigzagging attitude of the CPV in managing the Internet in an attempt to reinforce its legitimacy and the challenges blogs pose to the state-run media's monopoly in the digital age.

On Becoming a Student of Vietnamese History

Research Article| August 01 2017 On Becoming a Student of Vietnamese History Hue-Tam Ho Tai Hue-Tam Ho Tai Hue-Tam Ho Tai is Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History, Emerita at Harvard University, where she began teaching in 1980. Her areas of interest include social and cultural history. She is the author of Millenarianism and Peasant Politics in Vietnam (Harvard University Press, 1983), Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution (Harvard University Press, 1992), and Passion, Betrayal, and Revolution in Colonial Saigon (University of California Press, 2010). A complete list of her publications is provided at the end of this special collection. Her current research is on popular religion in Vietnam, specifically the cult of Hồ Chí Minh and the Guan Gong procession in Sam Mountain. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Vietnamese Studies (2017) 12 (3): 52–63. https://doi.org/10.1525/jvs.2017.12.3.52 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Hue-Tam Ho Tai; On Becoming a Student of Vietnamese History. Journal of Vietnamese Studies 1 August 2017; 12 (3): 52–63. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jvs.2017.12.3.52 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Vietnamese Studies Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2017 by The Regents of the University of California2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Hue-Tam Ho Tai’s Millenarianism and Peasant Politics in Vietnam

Hue-Tam Ho Tai’s Millenarianism and Peasant Politics in Vietnam

The Influence of Social Media in Vietnam's Elite Politics

There has been a notable rise of social media in Vietnam's politics in recent years. The use of social media in generating and exchanging content for public consumption has become increasingly complex and sophisticated. The development of social media has led to the public being better informed about key political and economic issues of public concern. Social media is also playing a visible role in the competition among political factions. Increased exposure and public scrutiny has had a great impact on the way the political apparatus operates and the closed-door preparations made by party-state elites to select top leadership. This paper examines the patterns of use of social media and highlights some of its prominent features and roles in Vietnam's politics. I investigate the impact that social media exerts, as well as the constraints on its use for the public.

Public Diplomacy: Why is it Rudimentary yet Relevant to Vietnam's Politics?

There is such a rekindled interest in public diplomacy (PD) that elevates it to the status of a catchword among diplomacy practitioners. Yet mainstream literature in international relations has predominantly focused on PD in Western democracies, and to a lesser extent, in other emerging powers like China and India. To enrich the current scholarship on PD, this article analyzes the PD practice by Vietnam. This authoritarian state's distinctive political system has resulted in three defining characteristics of its rudimentary PD, namely, the domestication of PD, extensive interference of propaganda, and far‐reaching control of the state. Since PD is domesticated, it has been utilized as part of the package solution to strengthening the regime's legitimacy. Therefore, as underdeveloped as it is in its state of affairs, the practice is more relevant to Vietnam than ever, considering the regime is facing both external and domestic pressure that warrants better coping mechanism.

Power and International Relations

Power and International Relations

Zink, Eren. 2013. Hot Science, High Water: Assembling Nature, Society and Environmental Policy in Contemporary Vietnam. Copenhagen: NIAS Press.

Zink, Eren. 2013. <i>Hot Science, High Water: Assembling Nature, Society and Environmental Policy in Contemporary Vietnam.</i> Copenhagen: NIAS Press.