Nothing Is Impossible

America's Reconciliation with Vietnam

Ted Osius

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Année: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781978825178
• Sujet: Politics & International Relations
• Sous-sujet: Politics

Today Vietnam is one of America's strongest international partners, with a thriving economy and a population that welcomes American visitors. How that relationship was formed is a twenty-year story of daring diplomacy and a careful thawing of tensions between the two countries after a lengthy war that cost nearly 60, 000 American and more than two million Vietnamese lives.Ted Osius, former ambassador during the Obama administration, offers a vivid account, starting in the 1990s, of the various forms of diplomacy that made this reconciliation possible. He considers the leaders who put aside past traumas to work on creating a brighter future, including senators John McCain and John Kerry, two Vietnam veterans and ideological opponents who set aside their differences for a greater cause, and Pete Peterson—the former POW who became the first U.S. ambassador to a new Vietnam. Osius also draws upon his own experiences working first-hand with various Vietnamese leaders and traveling the country on bicycle to spotlight the ordinary Vietnamese people who have helped bring about their nation's extraordinary renaissance.With a foreword by former Secretary of State John Kerry, Nothing Is Impossible tells an inspiring story of how international diplomacy can create a better world.

Table des matières

• Cover
• Praise for Nothing Is Impossible
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• List of Photographs
• Foreword by John Kerry
• Preface: Biên Hòa Cemetery
• A Note on the Text
• 1. An Improbable Friendship
• 2. A Time to Heal and a Time to Build
• 3. The Story of Pete Peterson
• 4. David and Goliath
• 5. The Legacies of War
• 6. Think Unthinkable Thoughts
• 7. Diplomacy from a Bicycle Seat
• 8. Châu, Khiết, and the Students of Vietnam
• 9. China and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
• 10. The Communist Party
• 11. The Notorious RBG
• 12. A New Journey
• 13. A New President
• 14. Ditches and Tree Roots
• Epilogue: Reconciliation
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author