New Zealand and the Vietnam war : politics and diplomacy / Roberto Rabel.

Collection type	Library
Author	Rabel, Roberto Giorgio, 1955-; New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage.;
Call Number	959.7043393 R114n
Document type	Monograph
Year	c2005.
Pagination	xi, 443 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Publisher	Auckland University Press,
Note	"Published in association with the Ministry for Culture and Heritage"--T.p. verso. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 425-433. "Starting with the first Indochina War in the 1950s, this historical analysis covers the full story of New Zealand's relations with Vietnam up to the end of the Vietnam War in the 1970s. It explores the diplomatic history of the engagement, which is not well known or understood, and shows that officials and politicians in fact entered the war with extreme reluctance. Running parallel with this is an account of the passionate domestic politics provoked by the war which has had such a long-term effect on Ne w Zealand's foreign policy. Roberto Rabel's thorough and balanced study of these dramatic times is a thought-provoking book."--BOOK JACKET.
Place made	Auckland, N.Z. :

Abstract

1. New Zealand and the First Indochina War, 1945-54 -- 2. From Geneva to the Tonkin Gulf: A decade of decisions deferered, 1954-64 -- 3. In the Cold War's shadow: The origins and evolution of domestic debate about the Vietnam War, 1945-64 -- 4. An accepta ble price to pay: The diplomacy of combat intervention in the Vietnam War, 1964-5 -- 5. The domestic politics of combat intervention, January-June 1965 -- 6. Part of the way with LBJ: New Zealand defers an expanded commitment, June 1965-December 1966 -- 7 . A war of words: Defining the domestic political debate about Vietnam, June-December 1965 -- 8. The domestic politics of the Vietnam War in an election year, 1966 -- 9. Paying a higher premium: The escalation of New Zealand's military effort, 1967-8 -- 1 0. Dialogue of the deaf: The domestic politics of the Vietnam Conflict, 1967-8 -- 11. Concluding a chapter: The diplomacy of military desengagement from Vietnam, 1969-72 -- 12. The fracturing of foreign policy consensus, 1969-72 -- 13. New Zealand and the ending of the Vietnam War, 1972-5 -- 14. The historical significance of New Zealand's Vietnam experience.