The East Asia security environment in the beginning of the twenty-first century and the adjustments in Vietnamese foreign policy

• Main Author: Pham, Quang Minh
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asia-Pacific Review 2019
• Subjects: The East Asia; Environment; Twenty-first century; Adjustments; Vietnamese foreign policy
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/66785; https://doi.org/10.1080/13439006.2011.582681
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

International relations are social actions, and their expression is behavior of the states. According to French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, the basis for any social action is habitus and capital (Bourdieu 1982). For Bourdieu, social action is not created in a vacuum but always takes place under...