Vietnam since 1975: Two views from Australia (CSAAR research paper) [Paperback]

Carlyle A Thayer (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 70 pages
• Publisher: Griffith University, Centre for the Study of Australian-Asian Relations (1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0868571482
• ISBN-13: 978-0868571485

More About the Author

Carlyle (Carl) A. Thayer (born November 5, 1945, Nevada City, California) is the son of a career U.S. Army officer (West Point 1939). He is a dual US-Australian citizen. He lived in Boston, Arlington (Va), Germany, France,Germany (again), Pittsburgh, Taiwan, Schenectady (NY) and Puerto Rico. He attended Guilderland Central High School in upstate New York for three years and graduated from Antilles High School in San Juan, Puerto Rico when his father was transferred there. Carl graduated from Brown University with a degree in political science (1967). He then served in Vietnam with the International Voluntary Services (1967-68) and in Botswana with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (1968-69). He completed a two-year M.A. degree in Southeast Asian Studies at Yale (1971). In a momentous decision, he undertook PhD studies at The Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra (PhD 1977). His academic career included four years at the Bendigo Institute of Technology/College of Advanced Education (1975-78) and then 31 years with The University of New South Wales (UNSW), teaching first in the Faculty of Military Studies at The Royal Military College-Duntroon (1979-85) and then University College at the Australian Defence Force Academy (1985-2010). Carl served more than nine years away from UNSW, first on secondment to the Department of Political and Social Change at the ANU (1992-95). He was later given leave "in the national interest" to take up a senior post at the U.S. Defense Department's Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii (1999-02). On return to Australia he co-ordinated the senior course at the Australian Defence College's Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies (2002-04) and then directed Regional Security Studies at the Australian Command and Staff College (2006-07 and 2010). Carl was appointed the C. V. Starr Distinguished Visiting Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in 2005 and the inaugural Frances M. and Stephen F. Fuller Distinguished Visiting Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Ohio University in 2008. Carl is internationally acknowledged for his expertise in Vietnamese studies and Southeast Asian politics and regional security. He has written over 400 publications, ranging from single-authored,co-authored,edited,and co-edited books to research monographs, book chapters, journal articles, electronic jounals, radio commentaries and opinion editorials in leading newspapers. Carl is the former national secretary of the Asian Studies Association of Australia and was a founder and national secretary of the Vietnam Studies Association of Australia. In January 2011 he will become Emeritus Professor and devote his time to completing two books, one on domestic politics in Vietnam and the other on the Vietnam People's Army.