The Contents

Carlyle A. Thayer

Brook Taylor

  • My Thirty-year Journey - Sample

Sam Korsmoe

  • Chapter 1: The Hypothesis - Sample

  • Chapter 2: The First Two Thousand Years

  • Chapter 3: This is Who We Are

  • Chapter 4: Open for Business

  • Chapter 5: Free Trade Better Work

  • Chapter 6: Policymakers

  • Chapter 7: Is Vietnam a Tiger and Can It Jump?

  • Chapter 8: What the Asian Tigers Had

  • Chapter 9: The Cards It Holds

  • Chapter 10: Six Case Studies

Case Study 1: Education

Case Study 2: Leapfrog Technology

Case Study 3: The Role of Women

Case Study 4: Tourism, Cuisine, Art, and Olympic Dreams

Case Study 5: Value-added Agriculture

Case Study 6: Public Works

  • Chapter 11: The Risks Ahead

  • Chapter 12: Vietnam in 2050

  • Abbreviations and Acronyms

  • Index