SJS 5 - "Is Vietnam on the Verge of Change?"

Source: London, Jonathan D. "Is Vietnam on the Verge of Change." Current History 
     September (2015): 229-35. Print. 
Author Credentials:  Jonathan D. London is an assistant profesor of the sociology at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the editor of Politics in Contemporary Vietnam. This makes him qualified to write about the topic because studying sociology helps him understand the social changes within Vietnam, which would help him better understand how the changes in different fields in Vietnam affect the social community.

Summary: After the end of the American War, specifically 4 decades after, the Vietnamese and their ruling party came face to face with a series of big problems about the country's economic control and its political direction. They were about the present and future plans of civil and social rights. Along with, foreign relations and national security. As many watched these problems develop in these fields it was easy to understand the complexities that were needed to solve them. And hopefully those solutions to these big problems are what will drive Vietnam into change. In more recent years, the country has experienced an economic increase and the people have become more vocal and insisting on a more responsible government.

Analysis: The article is very well written and I enjoyed how he wrote about the post-war recovery developments and the current developments to prove his argument that, in fact, Vietnam is on the road towards change. The author does not include many opinions and states many facts, which leaves the questions that are asked in the introduction to be answered by the reader for themselves.