Abstract

Marc Frey

Die amerikanische Aggression in Vietnam ist in Europa und Nordamerika als „der Vietnamkrieg" bekannt. Sinnvoller wäre es aber, den Konflikt im Kontext von nationalen Befreiungskriegen als „Indochinakonflikt" zu bezeichnen. Es handelte sich um mehrere Kriege, die miteinander verwoben sowie durch lokale, metropolitane und internationale Faktoren geprägt waren. Der Indochinakonflikt verdeutlicht die Handlungsautonomie von Klientelsystemen im Kalten Krieg; er verweist auf die ideologische und machtpolitische Fragmentierung des so genannten kommunistischen Blocks. Unterhalb der Ebene der globalen Auseinandersetzung war das System des Kalten Krieges multipolar konfiguriert.
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In Europe and North America, the American aggression in Vietnam is best known as the "Vietnam War". However, it would be more appropriate to place the conflict in the larger context of wars of national liberation and thus call it the "Indochina Conflict". It was a conflict in which several distinct wars intertwined and which was shaped by local, metropolitan, and international factors. The Indochina Conflict demonstrates the freedom of action of clientele systems during the Cold War, and reflects the fragmentation of the so-called communist bloc in terms of ideology and power politics. Below the level of the global struggle, the Cold War system was multipolar.

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