Thuy Linh Nguyen
Ph.D. Candidate (ABD)
nguyen4@sas.upenn.edu
Education
B.A. in International Relations, Institute for International Relations, Hanoi, Vietnam (2001); M.Phil in International Relations, University of Cambridge, UK (2003); Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Fields
Cold War in Asia, the Vietnam Wars, Vietnamese diplomacy, American diplomacy in the 20th century; Minor interest: East Asian diplomacy in the 19th and 20th century
Dissertation Topic
The Cold War in Asia especially the Vietnam Wars, Vietnam after 1975, Vietnamese-American and Vietnamese-Chinese relationship.
Advisor
Personal Statement
As my major for undergraduate and master studies was international relations, I am interested in diplomatic history from 1945 to the 1990s. I want to examine the Cold War in Asia, the Vietnam Wars and Vietnamese diplomacy from the Communist perspective, which is much different from that of Western historiography. My M.Phil thesis at Cambridge was about the delicate triangular relationship between Vietnam, China and the Soviet Union during the Vietnam Wars.
