The Southeast Asia Crisis

This is the eighth in the series of books based on the Hammarskjöld Forums that are being conducted by The Association of the Bar of the City of New York as case studies on "The Role of Law in the Settlement of International Disputes". The Forum on "The Southeast Asia Crisis" on which this book is based was the second dealing with Asian problems. Since the Forum was held on October 18, 1965, at a time when emotions and frustrations were running high over the increasing involvement of the United States in Vietnam, there were those who would have preferred a presentation focused solely on that involvement and on the Vietnamese problem. The Committee decided, however, that the educational purposes of these Forums would be better served by trying to present the Southeast Asian problems, including that of Vietnam, in broader perspective.