Forging strategic partnership in the Indo–Pacific region: Vietnam’s diplomatic direction

IF 1.2 4区社会学 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Political Science Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI:10.1080/00323187.2021.1957955

Lena Le, Khac Nam Hoang

{"title":"Forging strategic partnership in the Indo–Pacific region: Vietnam’s diplomatic direction","authors":"Lena Le, Khac Nam Hoang","doi":"10.1080/00323187.2021.1957955","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Vietnam used to be isolated from the international community but has now become the Southeast Asian country with the most strategic partnerships with other Indo-Pacific countries. In Vietnam, over the past decade, ‘strategic partnership’ has also become a popular concept in the country’s foreign policy and media. However, the current literature does not yet include significant study on Vietnam’s new foreign policy practice. This article attempts to fill the gap by examining Vietnam’s use of ‘strategic partnership’, how Vietnam defines the term and how its partnerships operate in practice. By examining case studies of three strategic partnerships between Vietnam and India, Japan, and the Philippines, this article argues that the way Vietnam views strategic partnership shares quite a few common features with existing studies’ definitions. It also concludes that the country has rapidly forged strategic partnerships in the Indo-Pacific more than any other Southeast Asian country because of both external factors and internal demands. Despite limitations, SP is a valuable political and diplomatic tool for Vietnam.","PeriodicalId":20275,"journal":{"name":"Political Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Political Science","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00323187.2021.1957955","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"POLITICAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Abstract

ABSTRACT Vietnam used to be isolated from the international community but has now become the Southeast Asian country with the most strategic partnerships with other Indo-Pacific countries. In Vietnam, over the past decade, ‘strategic partnership’ has also become a popular concept in the country’s foreign policy and media. However, the current literature does not yet include significant study on Vietnam’s new foreign policy practice. This article attempts to fill the gap by examining Vietnam’s use of ‘strategic partnership’, how Vietnam defines the term and how its partnerships operate in practice. By examining case studies of three strategic partnerships between Vietnam and India, Japan, and the Philippines, this article argues that the way Vietnam views strategic partnership shares quite a few common features with existing studies’ definitions. It also concludes that the country has rapidly forged strategic partnerships in the Indo-Pacific more than any other Southeast Asian country because of both external factors and internal demands. Despite limitations, SP is a valuable political and diplomatic tool for Vietnam.

查看原文本刊更多论文

在印太地区建立战略伙伴关系:越南的外交方向

摘要越南过去与国际社会隔绝，但现在已成为与其他印太国家建立最具战略伙伴关系的东南亚国家。在过去的十年里，“战略伙伴关系”也成为越南外交政策和媒体的一个流行概念。然而，目前的文献还没有包括对越南新外交政策实践的重要研究。本文试图通过考察越南对“战略伙伴关系”的使用、越南如何定义该术语以及其伙伴关系在实践中如何运作来填补这一空白。本文通过对越南与印度、日本和菲律宾三个战略伙伴关系的个案研究，认为越南看待战略伙伴关系与现有研究的定义有很多共同之处。报告还得出结论，由于外部因素和内部需求，该国在印太地区迅速建立了比任何其他东南亚国家都多的战略伙伴关系。尽管存在局限性，但SP对越南来说是一个宝贵的政治和外交工具。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Political Science POLITICAL SCIENCE-

CiteScore

0.90

自引率

0.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： Political Science publishes high quality original scholarly works in the broad field of political science. Submission of articles with a regional focus on New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific is particularly encouraged, but content is not limited to this focus. Contributions are invited from across the political science discipline, including from the fields of international relations, comparative politics, political theory and public administration. Proposals for collections of articles on a common theme or debate to be published as special issues are welcome, as well as individual submissions.