Keterlibatan Amerika Serikat dalam Perang Vietnam: Faktor Ideologi, Identitas, dan Idealisme

Vietnam War United States Democratic Peace Theory Pentagon Papers war policy

Authors

  • Demas Nauvarian
    demas.nauvarian-2017@fisip.unair.ac.id
    Department of International Relations Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Universitas Airlangga
December 10, 2019

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This paper aims to prove the justification of US democracy in its
consistency in the Vietnam War for two decades (1955-1975). This was
done using the content analysis method of the US Department of Defense's
foreign policy documents in Vietnam - the Pentagon Papers - which were
the primary documents related to the process of making US foreign policy
during the Vietnam War. This was later matched with the view of Democratic
Peace Theory (Democratic Peace Theory) which has been widely
argued as the basis for policy making in the proxy war in the Cold War
era. This paper concludes that there are various other considerations,
both rational and irrational factors, which were used by the United States
in the Vietnam War