Political Geography: Vietnam / Journal: Woodrow Wilson School Journal of Public and International Affairs

Author:: Matej Jungwirth
Publication Date:: 05-2020
Content Type:: Journal Article
Journal:: Woodrow Wilson School Journal of Public and International Affairs
Institution:: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Abstract:: This paper explores the high seas as a critical space for the formulation and development of international human rights law in two inter-related areas: anti-piracy campaigns and rescue of the so-called “boat people.” While the high seas have been instrumental in promoting inter-state cooperation and coordination, I argue that they have also laid bare the limits of states’ nominal commitments to rights protection. Using historical case studies of the Vietnam crisis, Haiti arrivals to the United States, and the current marine policies of Australia, I show that states too often willfully neglect their human rights obligations. In doing so, these states might succeed in protecting their short-term interests, but undermine the foundations of international human rights regimes in the long run.
Topic:: Human Rights, Migration, Refugees, and Maritime
Political Geography:: Vietnam, Australia, Australia/Pacific, North America, Southeast Asia, and United States of America

Author:: Geoffrey P. Macdonald
Publication Date:: 05-2010
Content Type:: Journal Article
Journal:: Woodrow Wilson School Journal of Public and International Affairs
Institution:: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Abstract:: Andrew Bacevich is angry. He has tirelessly criticized a war that has raged on longer than World War II. As a self-proclaimed conservative and Vietnam veteran, his anti-Iraq War activism is uniquely cogent. On the campus of Boston University, where he teaches International Relations, Bacevich is a folk hero, lending his unimpeachable credentials to the left-leaning inclinations of his students. But his activism has not stopped the war. It didn't stop his son, Army First Lieutenant Andrew Bacevich, Jr., from being deployed to Iraq. And it didn't stop 27-year-old Andrew from being killed-in-action in May of 2007. Andrew Bacevich is angry. As he well should be.
Topic:: International Relations and War
Political Geography:: Iraq, America, and Vietnam

Author:: Hoang-Phuong Nguyen
Publication Date:: 05-2008
Content Type:: Journal Article
Journal:: Woodrow Wilson School Journal of Public and International Affairs
Institution:: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Abstract:: Like other developing countries, Vietnam has attempted to push for greater fiscal decentralization in the hope of a more efficient delivery of social services to targeted citizens. The fiscal decentralization initiative is encouraging and merits pursuit, but the present study however, shows that a misstep in the decentralization process can discriminate disproportionately against the poor. Specifically, an increase in the sub-provincial share of the total provincial expenditures is predicted to bring about an appreciable decrease in the lowest-quintile average monthly income. We suggest that the Vietnamese government require provinces to adopt pro-poor allocation norms rather than reclaiming its control over the provincial expenditure assignment. This paper's empirical findings sound a note of considerable caution that other developing countries should exercise in their fiscal decentralization efforts to avoid creating unintended consequences for the poor.
Political Geography:: Vietnam

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