This book is the first international history of the Third Indochina War, and features contributors from many different countries and scholarly traditions.
Exploring the origins and key issues of the Third Indochina War, which began in 1979, this book aims to demystify the long-term and immediate causes of the Vietnamese-Cambodian and Sino-Vietnamese conflicts. It examines how both the links between policies and policy assumptions in the countries involved drove them towards war.