Information on the thesis "Vietnam - India Strategic Partnership (2001 – 2011)" by graduate student Luc Minh Tuan, majoring in International Relations.1. Student's Full Name: Luc Minh Tuan 2. Gender: Male 3. Date of Birth: October 11, 1987 4. Place of Birth: District 5, Ho Chi Minh City 5. Decision No. 1887/QD-XHNV-SDH, dated October 21, 2010, issued by the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi 6. Changes during the training process: None 7. Thesis Title: Vietnam - India Strategic Partnership (2001 – 2011) 8. Major: International Relations, Code: 60.31.40 10. Scientific Advisor: Dr. Tran Nam Tien, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi Ho Chi Minh 11. Summary of thesis results: Identifying similarities in geographical location, history, culture, potential, and the need for expanded cooperation between Vietnam and India, thereby clarifying the foundations of the traditional Vietnam-India relationship with its unique characteristics and challenges through many periods of global change. Attempting to systematically and comprehensively reconstruct the Vietnam-India relationship during the period 2001-2011, a period marking important milestones in elevating the relationship to new levels. This was also a period of significant international developments, requiring each country to strengthen its cooperation, integration, and implement new strategies in foreign relations to leverage external forces and consolidate its potential. By clarifying the foundations, bases for connection, and current state of bilateral relations, this work will highlight the outstanding characteristics and contributions of this relationship at three levels: national, regional, and international, while also providing predictions on the future development of this relationship. 12. Practical applications: This work contributes to enhancing understanding of the Vietnam-India strategic partnership in Vietnam's foreign policy orientation towards multilateralism, diversification, and in-depth development of relations. The work has value as a reference, synthesizing and analyzing events, and will serve as a reference document for teaching, research on India – one of the major countries of strategic importance to Vietnam – and research on Vietnam's foreign policy. 13. Future research directions: Vietnam's "balanced diplomacy" policy, India's new Look East policy. 14. Published works related to the thesis: - Vu Duong Ninh (1987), “Vietnam - India in the struggle for national independence and social progress”, Journal of Historical Studies, No. 5+6 - Nguyen Canh Hue (1998), “Vietnam - India political relations (1975 – 1996)”, Journal of Social Sciences, Ho Chi Minh City - Tran Thi Li (2002), The policy adjustment of the Republic of India, Social Sciences Publishing House, Hanoi - Le Nguyen Huong Trinh (2005), India's foreign trade policy during the reform period, National Political Publishing House, Hanoi - Nguyen Vu Tung (editor) (2007), Vietnam's partnership framework, Academy of International Relations, Hanoi - Institute of Indian and Southwest Asian Studies (2012), Promoting Vietnam - India relations in the new context, Encyclopedia Publishing House, Hanoi
INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS
1. Full name: LUC MINH TUAN 2. Sex: MALE 3. Date of birth: October 11, 1987 4. Place of birth: District 05, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 5. Admission decision number: 1887/QD-XHNV-SDH Dated: October 21, 2010 6. Changes in academic process: none 7. Official thesis title: VIET NAM – INDIA STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP (PHASE 2001 -2011) 8. Major: International Relations 9. Code: 60.31.40 10. Supervisors: Ph.D. TRAN NAM TIEN, University of Social sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City 11. Summary of the findings of the thesis: Determining the similarities between Vietnam and India in geographical location, history, international context's impacts, national potential and the required opportunities for collaboration and integration of each nation. Reflecting the current status of Vietnam – India relations from 2001 to 2011 – a dynamic period of international relations that requires new strategies from each nation to take advantage of the external powers. From identifying the platform and current status of this traditional relation, this thesis will include about the specific characteristics, development trends and the contribution of this bilateral relation in regional level, inter-regional level and global level. 12. Practical applicability, if any: help to increase the common perceptions and clarify more about the enhancement of Vietnam – India relations during the previous phase and suggest some solutions to improve the development speed in the future. This thesis is a new and reliable reference for the later researches about Vietnam's foreign policy and India's “Look East Policy”. 13. Further research directions, if any: The “balance of power” policy of Vietnam, the “Look East Policy” of India in new phase.
