Exiting Indochina
Subtitle: U.S. leadership of the Cambodia settlement & normalization of relations with Vietnam
By: Richard H. Solomon ; foreword by Stanley Karnow.
Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Peace; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Cambodia; United States -- Foreign relations -- Cambodia; Cambodia -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam; Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989; Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1979-
Description: "For most Americans, the "exit" from Indochina occurred in 1973, when the last U.S. soldiers were evacuated from the roof of the embassy in Saigon. In fact, the final exit did not occur until two decades later, after the collapse of the Republic of Vietnam in 1975, the Cambodian revolution, and a decade of Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia. Only in the early 1990s were the major powers able to negotiate a settlement of the Cambodia conflict and withdraw from the region.".

"This book recounts the diplomacy that brought an end to great power involvement in Indochina, including the negotiations for a UN peace process in Cambodia and construction of a "road map" for normalizing U.S.-Vietnam relations. In so doing, this volume also highlights the changing character of diplomacy at the beginning of the 1990s, when, at least temporarily, an era of military confrontation among the major world powers gave way to political management of international conflicts."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-107) and index.