The Geneva Conference of 1954 on Indochina
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 29, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780333790007
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Asian studies; International relations; Peace studies; Cambodia; Laos; Vietnam
Description: "The Geneva Agreements of 1954 were widely welcomed. They ended a seven-year war in Indochina; gave France a dignified exit; averted wider conflict. In later years first Americans and Vietnamese, then Russians, Chinese, Cambodians and even Laotians tried to force Indochina into different patterns of their own devising. These new wars triggered by rejection of the Geneva compromise lasted longer, killed more people, did greater damage and achieved less - for anybody." "Perhaps Churchill was right: jaw-jaw is better than war-war. Certainly this first-hand, updated account of the Geneva Conference of 1954 - that triumph of old-fashioned diplomacy, which Britain initiated and France completed - offers a better model for the 21st century to follow."--BOOK JACKET.