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50 năm Hiệp định Paris: Những điều không được nói tới trong tuyên truyền của Việt Nam [VOA VN]

Long et intéressant entretien avec l’historien Pierre Asselin sur le cinquantenaire des Accords de Paris. Retour sur les points masqués par la propagande d’État en RSVN.

Pierre Asselin est l’auteur de A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement (University of North Carolina Press, 2002).

Năm mươi năm trước, Chiến tranh Việt Nam đạt tới một bước ngoặt lịch sử vào ngày 27 tháng 1 năm 1973 khi bốn bên gồm Mỹ, Việt Nam Cộng Hòa, Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng Hòa (Bắc Việt Nam), Cộng hòa miền Nam Việt Nam (Việt Cộng) kí kết Hiệp định Paris với mục đích chấm dứt chiến tranh, lập lại hòa bình tại Việt Nam.

Theo các điều khoản, Mỹ đồng ý đình chỉ ngay lập tức mọi hoạt động quân sự và rút toàn bộ quân nhân còn lại trong vòng 60 ngày. Bắc Việt Nam đồng ý ngừng bắn ngay lập tức và trả tự do cho tất cả tù binh Mỹ trong vòng 60 ngày. Hơn 100.000 binh sĩ Bắc Việt Nam đang ở trên lãnh thổ Việt Nam Cộng Hòa được phép ở lại. Việt Nam vẫn bị chia cắt.

Sự kiện này được chính quyền cộng sản của Việt Nam mô tả là một “chiến thắng vĩ đại” về ngoại giao mở ra cục diện mới tiến tới thống nhất hoàn toàn đất nước vào năm 1975. Nhưng các học giả nghiên cứu Chiến tranh Việt Nam ở ngoài nước nói rằng thực tế lịch sử phức tạp hơn những gì được tuyên truyền một chiều.

VOA trò chuyện với Pierre Asselin, Giáo sư Lịch sử tại Đại học San Diego State ở Mỹ, người từng viết một cuốn sách về tiến trình dẫn tới Hiệp định Paris, để làm sáng tỏ một số vấn đề lịch sử. Nội dung cuộc phỏng vấn đã được biên tập lại cho rõ ràng và dễ theo dõi.

Lire l’entretien : https://www.voatiengviet.com/a/nam-muoi-nam-hiep-dinh-paris-chien-tranh-viet-nam/6934715.html

Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords [Nixon Foundation, 26/01/2023]

Une conférence en ligne à suivre sur YouTube, à partir de 19h, heure française. Présentation ci-dessous.

Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords

January 26, 2023  · 

Virtual Event with Livestream Beginning at 10 AM PST

The signing of the Paris Peace Accords on January 27, 1973 was a milestone in the Nixon administration’s attempts to end the war in Vietnam.   

Fifty years later,  scholars and historians of the Vietnam War will commemorate, examine and discuss the grand strategy that the Nixon administration enacted in its attempt to end the war in Vietnam, secure the peace, and repatriate the American prisoners of war, as well as the years of negotiation that led to the Paris Peace Accords. 

This live, virtual event features two panel discussions: President Nixon’s Grand Strategyfor Vietnam and Seeking Peace in Vietnam, 1969-1973, as well as keynote remarks from Dr. Mark Moyar, William P. Harris Chair of Military History at Hillsdale College. 

Programme et participants : https://www.eventleaf.com/e/50thAnniversaryParisPeaceAccords

François Guillemot : La guerre civile au Viêt-Nam, approche polémologique et pratique révolutionnaire

[ndlr] Communication de François Guillemot dans le séminaire de l’ERC : Social Dynamics of Civil Wars.

La prochaine séance du séminaire “Social Dynamics of Civil Wars” aura lieu :

Le mercredi 21 novembre 2018 de 18h à 20h  

Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne – Centre Broca 

21 rue Broca, 75005 Paris

Bâtiment A / salle 701 / 7ème étage

Nous aurons le plaisir d’accueillir François Guillemot, ingénieur de recherche CNRS à l’Institut d’Asie Orientale (ENS Lyon), pour une intervention intitulée :

La guerre civile au Viêt-Nam, approche polémologique et pratique révolutionnaire”.

Résumé :

L’intervention de François Guillemot questionnera à travers deux textes inédits la catégorie “guerre civile” confrontée à l’expérience vietnamienne entre 1945 et 1975. La plus grande partie de sa communication vise à expliquer comment la “guerre du peuple”, théorisée par le général Vo Nguyên Giap, se transforme en “guerre civile révolutionnaire” au Sud dans le contexte de la Guerre froide, de la rupture sino-soviétique et du communisme de guerre sous l’égide de Lê Duân. Ainsi, deux polémologies se sont concurrencées et croisées pour le leadership de la conduite et des modalités de la guerre. La stratégie de la lutte à outrance ne fut pas sans conséquences pour le coût général du conflit et questionne encore aujourd’hui la réconciliation nationale. Invisible dans l’historiographie officielle, le concept de “guerre civile” est peu à peu admis par les historiens vietnamiens à l’intérieur du pays alors qu’il apparaît comme une évidence dès les années soixante pour les intellectuels et artistes de la République du Viêt-Nam (1955-1975). Pour illustrer son propos, François Guillemot évoquera la pratique des “Biêt Dông”, les commandos urbains vietnamiens dans la “guerre civile révolutionnaire” au sud. Une discussion générale suivra cette communication qui s’inscrit dans le cadre de l’ERC “Dynamiques sociales de la guerre civile” (Social Dynamics of Civil Wars) portée par Gilles Dorronsoro.

  • Ouvrage cité : François Guillemot, Viêt-Nam, fractures d’une nation. Une histoire contemporaine de 1858 à nos jours, Paris, La Découverte, Poche / Sciences humaines et sociales, 2018.

Image “à la une” :  Echange de prisonniers vietnamiens entre le Nord et le Sud, Bien Hoa 1973. La pancarte dit : “Retourner chez les communistes s’est se suicider”. Source : Manh Hai

“1969: Vietnamization and the Year of Transition in the Vietnam War” (Call for Papers and Panels)

Message de Steve Maxner du Vietnam Center à l’université Lubbock du Texas.

Conference Call for Papers and Panels
“1969:  Vietnamization and the Year of Transition in the Vietnam War”

April 25-27, 2019, Lubbock, Texas

The Vietnam Center and Archive (VNCA) and the Institute for Peace & Conflict (IPAC) at Texas Tech University are pleased to announce a conference focused on the year 1969. We expect in this conference to approach a wide range of historical events and topics by hosting presenters who examine diplomatic, military, international, regional, and domestic aspects of the Vietnam War. We also seek presentations that reflect the recent and emerging scholarship on the transition of leadership from Johnson to Nixon and from Westmoreland to Abrams in challenging and complicating existing interpretations of them and their policies. We are also particularly interested in papers that address the concepts of “Vietnamization” and the shift toward “pacification.” We seek presentations that reflect all participants and perspectives, including those of the US, RVN, DRV, NLF, and other nations involved. Additional areas of interest include the strategic and tactical decision-making to expand the war into Cambodia with OPERATION MENU. We also encourage presentations that examine the social and religious aspects of the war, the antiwar and peace movements at home and abroad, the effect of journalism and reporting on the war, and the efforts to end the conflict through international diplomacy and military and diplomatic means in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

This two-day conference will be hosted in Lubbock, Texas. Conference organizers welcome both individual presentation proposals as well as pre-organized panel proposals that include a moderator/commentator and three individual presentations. Conference sessions will follow the standard 90-minute format to include 60 minutes for presentations (20 minutes per presentation) followed by 30 minutes for commentary, questions, and discussion. Presentations by veterans are especially encouraged as are presentations by graduate students. Graduate student travel grants will be made available to select students. All presentations will be video recorded and made publicly available after the conference via the Vietnam Center and Archive website. Select papers may also be published in a collection by the TTU Press.

Proposal submission deadline is February 1, 2019.

Please submit a 250-word abstract and separate two-page CV/resume to VietnamConference.TTU@gmail.com. The program committee of Ron Milam, Steve Maxner, Justin Hart, Dave Lewis, and Laura Calkins will evaluate all paper proposals and develop a program that reflects the many remarkable aspects of 1969. If submitting a panel proposal, please include separate abstracts for each proposed presentation and CVs/resumes for each speaker.

Thank you for your interest in participating in this conference.

Understanding Insurgencies: Colonial Insurgencies as Transnational Phenomena – 27-28 avril 2018

[ndlr] Annonce d’une importante  journée d’étude à l’UQAM (Montréal).

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Understanding Insurgencies: Colonial Insurgencies as Transnational Phenomena

27-28 avril 2018

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

 

Présentation de la journée d’étude :

Depuis la Seconde guerre mondiale, le monde a connu des conflits marqués par la guérilla, les guerres irrégulières et les « insurgencies ». Les gouvernements occidentaux confrontés à ces mouvements eurent toutes les peines à les arrêter. Les expériences nationales des guerres de décolonisation ont certes fait l’objet d’études, mais rares sont celles qui comparent la désintégration des empires occidentaux et qui s’interrogent sur la manière dont ces expériences coloniales peuvent nous aider à mieux comprendre les conflits qui secouent encore le monde aujourd’hui – en Syrie, Iraq et Afghanistan. Ce projet de collaboration avec l’Université d’Exeter – intitulé Comprendre les insurrections : Résonances du passé colonial – réunit des chercheurs européens et nord-américains à travers huit ateliers incluant le nôtre: “Les insurrections coloniales comme des phénomènes transnationaux.”

Cet évènement réunira une douzaine de spécialistes autour du thème des connexions transnationales qui ont pu exister entre les mouvements anticolonialistes d’un côté et les puissances impériales de l’autre. Quels liens, au juste, existaient entre ces mouvements anticolonialistes qui se battaient pourtant souvent très loin les uns des autres ? Comment ces mouvements insurrectionnels et contre-insurrectionnels ont-ils pu gagner des soutiens aux niveaux régional et international ? Quels furent les idées, les expériences, les savoirs et les matériaux qui circulaient entre les groupes ? Et comment l’opinion mondiale et les nouvelles organisations internationales ont-elles compris et interagi avec la décolonisation ?

Jusqu’à récemment, la plupart des chercheurs ont étudié les guerres de décolonisation dans un cadre national. Notre projet les resitue comme un phénomène interconnecté et global, tant pour les colonisés que pour les colonisateurs. Leurs dirigeants ont construit des réseaux de collaboration et des moyens d’échanges intellectuels, politiques, militaires et économiques. Les communistes vietnamiens luttant contre la France entre 1945 et 1954, par exemple, ont importé des modèles révolutionnaires de la Chine communiste avant de les exporter ailleurs. Les Français, Britanniques et Américains, de leur côté, ont échangé leurs propres modèles de “counter-insurgency” lors des guerres de décolonisation. La décolonisation s’est aussi mondialisée: les nationalistes algériens du Front de libération nationale (FLN) ont mené par exemple une bataille fascinante contre les Français à l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU.

Pour bien saisir les dimensions de ce processus transnational, nous avons fait appel à des historiens de la décolonisation (Afrique, Proche-Orient, Asie), des politologues, des juristes et même à l’un des responsables des archives de l’ONU. Cela nous permettra d’aborder pour la première fois le rôle de la mondialisation dans la décolonisation et son héritage pour les conflits d’aujourd’hui. Cette forme de combat transnational est d’autant plus présente aujourd’hui grâce au développement des technologies et des communications permettant aux insurgés comme Isis d’influencer l’opinion mondiale.

Programme ci-dessous :

Panel discussion : The Tet Offensive – Lessons from the Campaign After 50 Years (CSIS)

[ndlr] Annonce du CSIS sur un panel consacré à l’Offensive du Têt.

The Project on Military and Diplomatic History cordially invites you to

The Tet Offensive: Lessons from the Campaign After 50 Years

Continuer la lecture de Panel discussion : The Tet Offensive – Lessons from the Campaign After 50 Years (CSIS)

Conference Call for Papers and Panels : “1968 and the Tet Offensive”

[ndlr] Annonce du Vietnam Center & Archive.

Conference Call for Papers and Panels

“1968 and the Tet Offensive”

April 27-28, 2018, Lubbock Texas

The Vietnam Center and Archive (VNCA) and the Institute for Peace & Conflict (IPAC) at Texas Tech University are pleased to announce a conference focused on the year 1968 and the Tet Offensive. We expect in this conference to approach these historical events in the broadest possible manner by hosting presenters who examine diplomatic, military, international regional, and domestic aspects of the Vietnam War during that year, as well as the strategic and tactical decision-making and actions that led up to and followed the Tet Offensive. This will include presentations that look at all participants to include the US, RVN, DRV, NLF, and the numerous allies and other nations involved. We will also strongly encourage presentations that examine the antiwar and peace movements at home and abroad, the efforts to support the war effort, and the efforts to end the conflict through international diplomacy, as well as military and diplomatic means in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

Recent and emerging scholarship on the Tet Offensive and on 1968, more broadly, is refocusing much needed attention on some of the pivotal events that took place during that fateful year. In late November 1967, General William Westmoreland publicly conveyed his optimism regarding eventual US victory in Vietnam, helping President Johnson to buoy flagging US popular and political support for the war effort. In the aftermath of the Tet Offensive, as fighting broke out in every major city throughout the entirety of South Vietnam, many started to doubt the veracity of those previous claims, including prominent politicians and members of the American media.

Attention within the US came to focus on some of the more brutal battles that emerged as US Marines fought to retake Vietnam’s ancient Imperial city in the Battle for Hue and they came under heavy fire during in the Siege of Khe Sanh. As the fighting intensified in Vietnam, so it did in the streets and on campuses across America, as critics of the war continued their calls for an immediate US withdrawal and an end to the war. So powerful was the effect of these events that on March 31, President Johnson announced that he would not seek reelection – adding to the leadership changes already in play with the departure of Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense in late February and the emergence of General Creighton Abrams and departure of General Westmoreland as commander of US forces in Vietnam in June. The violence that year included some of the most horrific wartime atrocities committed against civilians in Vietnam, including the Hue Massacre and the My Lai Massacre, while violence in the US claimed the lives of nationally prominent figures, such as Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. The presidential election that year witnessed last-minute attempts by the Johnson administration to end the war in Vietnam sabotaged by the Nixon campaign.

By the end of 1968, approximately 550,000 Americans engaged in more than 200 major combat operations, dropped more than 500,000 tons of bombs, and the overall financial costs of the war for that year alone totaled approximately $20 Billion. 1968 resulted in the highest numbers of casualties in a single year with more than 16,000 Americans and approximately 100,000 Vietnamese killed on all sides. All the while, the North Vietnamese and NLF fought on. With a new president and leadership team preparing to take over in January of 1969, innumerable questions remained as to whether a US victory could be achieved in Vietnam.

This two-day conference will be hosted at the MCM Elegante Hotel and Suites in Lubbock, Texas. Conference organizers welcome both individual presentation proposals as well as pre-organized panel proposals that include a moderator/commentator and three individual presentations. Conference sessions will follow the standard 90-minute format to include 60 minutes for presentations (20 minutes per presentation) followed by 30 minutes for questions and discussion. Presentations by veterans are especially encouraged as are presentations by graduate students. Graduate student travel grants will be made available to select students. All presentations will be video recorded and made publicly available after the conference via the Vietnam Center and Archive website. Select papers may also be published in a collection by the TTU Press.

Proposal submission deadline is February 15, 2018

Please submit a 250 word abstract and separate two-page CV/resume to 1968vietnamconference@gmail.com. The program committee of Ron Milam, Steve Maxner, Justin Hart, Dave Lewis, and Laura Calkins will evaluate all paper proposals and develop a program that reflects the many remarkable aspects of 1968. If submitting a panel proposal, please include separate abstracts for each proposed presentation and CVs/resumes for each speaker.

Thank you for your interest in participating in this conference.

 

Contact Email: justin.hart@ttu.edu

Source : https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/events/2018_Conference/

Illustration “à la une” : photo de couverture du magazine Life, 9 février 1968 : “A guerilla is taken alive during the Ambassy battle” © 1968 Life.