Title Page
Contents
ACRONYMS 8
ABSTRACT 9
I. Introduction 11
1.1. Background of the Study 11
1.2. Research Questions and Methodology 13
1.3. Chapter Outlines 15
II. Review of Related Literatures 17
2.1. Sketch on Vietnam's Long History 17
Chinese Influence 17
French Colonialism (1858-1940) 18
"War after War" 19
2.2. Communism, An Inevitable Choice 21
The Foundation of the DRV and Vietnam's Communist Nature 22
Looking for Non-Communist Assistance 24
2.3. Vietnamese Leadership on the Course of Development 26
Collective Leadership 26
Balance and Harmony-based Leadership 27
Consolidation and Development under the CPV's Leadership 28
2.4. Doimoi in Review 32
Historical background of Doimoi 32
Doimoi's Significances 34
III. Vietnam through the Hard State Prism 39
3.1. The Hard State Framework 39
3.2. Examination Hard State's Conditions in Vietnam 42
Centralized and Solid Structural Power of the Party-State System 42
State Planning 46
Relatively Good Governance 48
3.3. Assessing Vietnam in the Hard State Perspective 51
IV. Vietnam's Reform Towards the Developmental State Model 53
4.1. The Developmental State Model 53
Internal Conditions 54
External Conditions 55
4.2. A Comparative View between a Hard State and Developmental State 55
Similarities 56
Differences 56
4.3. Developmental Outcomes of Doimoi 58
State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Reform 58
Trade Reform Policy 62
4.4. Vietnam's Changing Geopolitics and Path to Developmental State 65
Features of Vietnamese state under the Developmental State 's Lens 65
Vietnam's economy in transition 68
Vietnam-US-China, a 'dynamic triangular relation' 73
V. Conclusion 82
References 87
Table 1. Vietnam's foreign trade, 1986-2000 through every other... 64
Table 2. FDI to Vietnam by main counterparts: Total registered... 79
Figure 1. Organization of the CPV 44
Figure 2. Vietnam's Corruption Perception Index 50
Figure 3. Investment capital by economic sector from 1995-2009 61
Figure 4. GDP share by economic sector from 1995 to 2009 62
Figure 5. US economic and military assistance to South Vietnam... 69
Figure 6. Vietnam-China Trade, 1995-2012 75
Figure 7. Vietnam-US Trade, 1995-2010 76
Figure 8. Foreign Direct Investment & Aid inflow in Vietnam, net... 77
Figure 9. US & China's FDI to Vietnam 78