Invisible Enemies
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American foreign policy after 1975
American influence on Cambodian conflicts
American sanctions and their impact
analysis
and cultural consequences
Author_Edwin A. Martini
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Cold War diplomacy in Asia
comic books depicting Vietnam conflict
continuing hostility toward former adversaries
corporate influence on foreign policy
cultural front in international relations
cultural representation of military conflict
economic
economic sanctions on Vietnam
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government documents and congressional hearings
historical analysis of postwar sanctions
historical case studies of U.S. foreign policy
influence of corporate lobbying on diplomacy
Khmer Rouge and Cambodian conflict
long-term economic policies against Vietnam
media portrayal of Vietnam
media shaping of historical memory
memorialization of the Vietnam War
MIAs and U.S. demands
movies about the Vietnam War
myths and narratives of postwar Vietnam
normalization of U.S.-Vietnam relations
political
political strategy in postwar Asia
post-Vietnam War U.S.-Vietnam relations
postwar military and economic tactics
public perception of Vietnam War
reconciliation and diplomacy in the 1990s
Southeast Asian political history
U.S. diplomatic strategy in Southeast Asia
U.S. intervention after troop withdrawal
U.S. policy and economic interests
Vietnam United Nations opposition
Vietnam War aftermath
Vietnam War cultural memory
Vietnam War legacies in the United States
Vietnam War narratives in popular culture
Vietnam-U.S. diplomatic challenges
war by other means strategies
Product details
- ISBN 9781558496095
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 154 x 221mm
- Publication Date: 26 Sep 2007
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Beginning where most histories of the Vietnam War end, ""Invisible Enemies"" examines the relationship between the United States and Vietnam following the American pullout in 1975. Drawing on a broad range of sources, from White House documents and congressional hearings to comic books and feature films, Edwin Martini shows how the United States continued to wage war on Vietnam ""by other means"" for another twenty-five years. In addition to imposing an extensive program of economic sanctions, the United States opposed Vietnam's membership in the United Nations, supported the Cambodians, including the Khmer Rouge, in their decade-long war with the Vietnamese, and insisted that Vietnam provide a ""full accounting"" of American MIAs before diplomatic relations could be established. According to Martini, such policies not only worked against some of the stated goals of U.S. foreign policy, they were also in opposition to the corporate economic interests that ultimately played a key role in normalizing relations between the two nations in the late 1990s. Martini reinforces his assessment of American diplomacy with an analysis of the ""cultural front"" - the movies, myths, memorials, and other phenomena that supported continuing hostility toward Vietnam while silencing opposing views of the war and its legacies. He thus demonstrates that the ""American War on Vietnam"" was as much a battle for the cultural memory of the war within the United States as it was a lengthy economic, political, and diplomatic campaign to punish a former adversary.
EDWIN A. MARTINI is assistant professor of history at Western Michigan University.
