Causes of failure of the Vietnamese-American talks on the settlement of relations in the second half of the 1970's

An answer to a question what disturbed to establish diplomatic relations between Vietnam and the United States in years 70 of the 20th century is an essential purpose of the article. These two states wasted the possibility of regulating bilateral relations. The American community wanted to end conflict with Vietnam. President Carter also aspired to it, but differences of opinion between Zbigniew Brzezinski and Cyrus Vance made achievement of this objective impossible, all the more, that both for politics thought that relations with China were more important. Relationships USA-Vietnam were considered not individually, but in the wider international context. Vietnam also made a few mistakes: he wasn't able to improve relationships with China, to solve of problem of Cambodia, to establish relations with ASEAN. Leading armies into Cambodia was the biggest mistake in this period. The politics of Vietnam was not very flexible too. In years 80 Vietnam again tried to create more easy terms for conversations and didn't raise the demand of war compensations strong. However a turning point of this situation was a political reforms called doi moi. Reorientaition of the foreign policy which was supposed to serve reforms, the pragmatism and the flexibility. The leading out Vietnam's armies from Cambodia opened the door for establishing diplomatic relations.

Vietnamese-American conversations, the 20th century, process of the normalization of bilateral relations, Southeast Asia, politics doi moi