Khmer-Viet Relations and the Third Indochina Conflict Book

	Introduction
1	The Inheritance: Kampuchea and Vietnam in History	1
	Before 1620	1
	1620-1775 and the Vietnamese Southward Expansion	2
	Passageway: The Marriage of Chey Chetta II	3
	Expansion	4
	Direct Vietnamese Control of Kampuchea in the Nineteenth Century	5
	The First Occupation 1813-1833: Le Van Duyet	6
	The Second Occupation 1834-1841: Truong Minh Giang	8
	The Post-Minh Mang Era	13
	Features of Vietnam's Nineteenth Century Policy in Kampuchea	13
	The Civilizing Mission	13
	The Vietnamese Concepts of Sphere of Influence and National Security	14
2	Anti-Colonialism: Cooperation and Antipathy	17
	An Overview of the Khmer-Viet Relationship Under Colonial Rule	17
	The Colonial Environment	19
	The Nationalist Response	22
	Armed Resistance and the Emergence of Kampuchean Communism	25
	The Indochinese Communist Party	26
	Vietminh	28
	The Formation of Kampuchean Communism	29
	Vietnamese Communist Policy Towards Kampuchea: 1930-1954	34
	Geneva	38
3	Communist Movements in Context: 1954-1975	42
	The Changing of the Guard: 1954-1967	42
	The Paris Marxist Circle	43
	The New Realities	45
	Communist Activities in the New Environment	48
	War and Victory: 1968-1975	59
	Opposing Imperatives: 1968-1970	59
	The Uneasy Alliance: 1970-1975	64
	Zonal Differences	73
4	Fraternal Revolutionaries in Power: Consolidation, April 1975 to April 1977	78
	The Territorial Imperative	78
	The Internal Crocodiles	80
	Federation	83
	Foes and Friends	85
	Sino-Vietnamese Relations	85
	Soviet-Vietnamese Relations	90
	Sino-Khmer Relations	92
5	Hereditary Enemies: The Coming of the Storm	96
	The Experiment	100
	Tainted Souls	102
	The Border War	104
	The Alignment of Allies	109
	China	109
	The United States	116
	ASEAN	120
	The Soviet Union	121
6	Hereditary Enemies: The Storm Arrives	125
	The Vietnamese Invasion	126
	The Vanquished	128
	The Immediate Reactions	130
	China and Vietnam	133
	China's Options	136
	Preparations	137
	The Chinese Invasion	139
7	Looking Ahead: The Politics of Good Neighbors	145
	The Impact of History: The Vietnamese Decade	145
	A Helping Hand	145
	Vietnamese Settlement	146
	Armed Resistance	147
	A Place in the Sun	148
	The Journey Forward	151
	Gorbachev	151
	The Chinese	153
	ASEAN and the West	154
	The Kampucheans	155
	The Vietnamese	157
	The Perils of Negotiations	164
	Good Neighbors	170
	Epilogue	175
	Notes	177
	Selected Bibliography	203
	Index	211