The Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) first launched Doi Moi [Renovation] in 1986—10 years after the VCP officially assumed power in 1976 of the Socialist Republics of Vietnam. As the VCP describes, Doi Moi is a comprehensive economic reform package with new initiatives toward building “a mixed economy” that introduces “market mechanism with state management and a socialist orientation” to Vietnam’s economy. With Doi Moi, pragmatism has evidently taken center stage in place of dogmatic concerns for ideological correctness. The thesis seeks to first examine the conditions and factors that gave impetus for the economic reforms in Vietnam. These conditions and factors are especially evident when they are examined in a comparative context with the Soviet Union and China’s experiences with similar reforms as they are done here in the thesis. Moreover, the change of orientation from a centrally planned economy to market-oriented economy is reflected in Doi Moi’s decentralization and economic liberalization reforms as well as the VCP’s opening up to international reintegration and reconciliation with namely the United States. From this examination, it is apparent that at the crux of the VCP’s decision to pursue reforms and the Vietnamese people's support for reforms are fundamental considerations of self and political interests—the VCP's to stay in power and the people's to subsist and prosper. Whether reforms are socialist or capitalist—in form or in practice—are thus of lesser importance to the VCP and Vietnamese people than whether reforms work or do not work. / text

À partir d'une libéralisation de l'économie instaurée en 1986 par le Doi Moi, ce qui signifie «changer pour faire du neuf », les artistes vietnamiens ont entrepris de rénover, sous l'angle de la contemporanéité, l'expression artistique traditionnelle selon des techniques nouvelles, empruntées à l'art occidental. Profondément attachés à la culture vietnamienne et à l'artisanat traditionnel, ils ont cependant créé des œuvres témoignant à la fois de leurs héritages et de leur ouverture à l’art contemporain international, pour les présenter au Vietnam et en divers lieux du monde. Ils ont alors instauré une relation dialectique entre l’histoire et le présent, pour aborder, en affirmant leur singularité, des thématiques concernant la société, la tradition et la politique. Ainsi, à travers leur questionnement «ouvert », dans le sens qu'Umberto Eco a donné à ce terme, les artistes vietnamiens s’inscrivent aujourd’hui pleinement dans l’art actuel, ses multiples pratiques (y compris la vidéo et les installations) et ses diverses théorisations. / From a large opening of economy introduced in 1986 by the Doi Moi, which mans « change to the new », Vietnamese artists made a reform of the traditional artistic expression in term contemporary, with new technicals borrowed from Western Art. Deeply attached to the Vietnamese culture and to traditional crafts, they created works recalling their heritage and the opening to international contemporary art, to show in Vietnam and in various places of the world. They introduced a dialectical relationship between history and the present, to discuss, stating their singular nature, themes on society, tradition and politics.Through their question “open” in the meaning that Umberto Eco has given to this term, Vietnamese artists are now fully part of contemporary art, with the multiple practices (including video and installations) and the various theories.

The diploma thesis titled "Political developments in Vietnam from 1954 to the present" focuses on the political development of Vietnam after the war in Indochina until present days. It describes what led Ho Chi Minh to adopt communism, after what and by whom he was inspired and why communism has nowadays still a strong position in Vietnam. The main attention is devoted to the reforms of Doi Moi, that have lifted the country's economy. It outlines the positive and negative aspects following the introduction of these reforms.

Since the Vietnamese Communist Party passed the resolution to implement the ¡§Doi Moi¡¨ policy in the sixth National Congress in December 1986, Vietnam¡¦s economy has transformed from state-controlled economic system to market and socialism-oriented economy. This change of economic system has contributed to the recent economic improvement in Vietnam, a key point of studying Vietnam¡¦s political development. On the perspective of political economy, modernization theory contends that economic development helps political democratization, whereas stably hegemony theory argues that economic achievement may bring about stability for authoritarian regimes. Based on state theory, this paper takes two dimensions, i.e. state autonomy and state capacity, to examine the issue whether the Vietnamese state will be influenced after Vietnam¡¦s political and economic reforms. This paper concludes that modernization theory is not able to explain the current political economy of Vietnam, because Vietnam did not change from a strong state to a weak state. Rather, Vietnam maintains a strong state, which fits the explanation of state theory.

The United States and Vietnam broke the deadlock after-Vietnam-War in 1995, and both of them make far progress on the fields of economy and strategic safety. Vietnam has performed well on economic development since the Doi Moi in 1991. In 2001, USA and Vietnam signed the trade agreement and developed faster. The relationship between USA and Vietnam gradually recovered in the past ten years, and which played an important role of Asia circumstance and region safety. In the process of normalization of the relationship between two countries, there are several China¡¦s factors such political, economic, and strategic benefits for both sides. Therefore, when researching USA strategy for South East Asia, Vietnam plays an important role. This research is based on geopolitics to study the process and factors of USA and Vietnam relationship. Then it could see that their relationship will develop faster and closer.

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This dissertation uses the latest development in consumer protection law in Vietnam (the adoption of the Consumer Protection Law of 2010 to regulate transactions between consumers and traders) to test key claims in competing legal transplantation theories. This research investigates comparative law debates about the legitimacy, usefulness and possibility of legal transplantation in law reform in developing and transitional countries. Alan Watson and his proponents believe strongly in the possibility of legal transplants, but fail to provide a clear and concrete methodology for producing effective and efficient laws. On the other hand, Robert Seidman and Ann Seidman openly reject the legitimacy of legal transplants, but offer a comprehensive methodology for effectively conducting law reform projects. They believe that, by following a problem-solving institutionalist legislative theory, legal drafters and law-makers in charge of law reform projects can easily produce effective and efficient laws. This dissertation argues that the nature of the reform of laws regulating consumer transactions in Vietnam is much more complex than Watson’s theory imagines. It also shows that, although the reception of foreign legal models is part of this law reform project, past legal transplants as well as the local law-making culture may filter or even inhibit the reception of foreign legal solutions. This research also reveals that current consumer law reform in Vietnam tends to follow the problem-solving approach, although it deviates somewhat from the legislative methodology proposed by the Seidmans. This dissertation attempts to clarify these deviations and explain the reasons for them. / Graduate

Cílem diplomové práce na téma ?Analýza a perspektivy hospodářských vztahů ČR s Vietnamem? je zejména rozbor aktuální situace v obchodních vztazích mezi Českou republikou a Vietnamskou socialistickou republikou. Práce podává obraz o působení ekonomických reforem realizovaných ve Vietnamu v posledních dvou desetiletích na hospodářské vztahy s Českou republikou. Je zde zmapován dosavadní vývoj vzájemné ekonomické spolupráce a jsou identifikovány možné budoucí obchodní příležitosti pro české podnikatelské subjekty. Mimo jiné jsou v práci popsány formy podpory českých podnikatelů vstupujících na vietnamský trh ze strany českých státních orgánů, představitelů vlády a dalších odpovědných agentur, ale také předpokládané dopady vstupu Vietnamu do WTO na vzájemný obchod s ČR.

Since the introduction in 1986 of Doi Moi program, a Vietnamese form of Perestroika, which was designed partly to reduce the role of state bureaucracy in the system, major economic reforms have been carried out in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV). However, while Vietnam's economic reforms have generated considerable interest, its limited political reforms, especially in the area of public administration, have not been a central concern among political scientists, historians and researchers. In their efforts to revitalise the state bureaucracy, reformers in Vietnam now recognise the importance of well qualified bureaucrats, and they inevitably have to face the old issue of how best to attract, motivate, train and retain public servants for a better government. This paper, based on the search through the maze of official documents in Vietnamese language, describes the SRV's political institutions, provides an overview of Vietnam's administrative system against the backdrop of the country's economic and political reforms, highlighting institutional interactions induced by reform imperatives, discusses recent administrative reforms emanating from the amended 1992 Constitution, and evaluates the effectiveness of current administrative reform strategies. Comments will also be made on . The roles and functions of central agencies in Vietnam . Policy making processes and paradigms . The 'emerging' dichotomy between policy and administration . The 'ministerial department' a la Vietnamienne . Machinery of government changes . Human resource management initiatives . The 'career service' nature of the Vietnamese public service, and, . Central versus provincial governments. Vietnamese Public Service is an important question and worthy of investigation because of the increasingly close bilateral relationship between Australia and Vietnam. Many Australian investors who have often been annoyed by unnecessary delays caused by bureaucratic red tape and corruption, are now keen to learn more about the policy making style of Vietnamese bureaucrats. Vietnam still displays many deliberate trappings of a country run in a highly centralist fashion. Its reorganisation strategy of the state's administrative system will continue to bear the socialist imprints. Dr David Marr of the Australian National University contends that layer upon layer of bureaucratic influence, from Chinese Neo-Confucian to French Third Republic to Soviet Stalinist, can be seen in Vietnam today. This paper argues that Vietnam's political and cultural legacies will continue to exercise significant influence, as they have in the past, on its public service's structures, strategies and ethics.