| FT-54570-06 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Edward Garvey Miller | Grand Designs: The Making and Unmaking of America's Alliance With Ngo Dinh Diem, 1954-1963 | 7/1/2006 - 8/31/2006 | $5,000.00 | Edward | Garvey | Miller | | | | Dartmouth College | Hanover | NH | 03755-1808 | USA | 2006 | History, General | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
This project re-interprets the origins of the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War by offering a new assessment of America's alliance with Ngo Dinh Diem, leader of South Vietnam. In it, I explore the interactions and conflicts among US and Vietnamese approaches to “nation building” during 1954-1963. I argue that the US-Diem alliance was defined by ideas about development and modernization, and by the differences between the visions espoused by American and South Vietnamese nation builders. I also analyze disputes among South Vietnamese over the means and ends of nation building, and I show how these internal disputes led to the unraveling of the US- Diem alliance and the destruction of the Diem government in 1963. |