Harish C Mehta
Biographic Data
| ID | 6188203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harish C Mehta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harish C |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehta |
| SIGNATURE | MEHTA H C |
| AFFILIATIONS | independent scholar |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The 50th Anniversary of the Reunification of Vietnam, 1975-2025
The Secret Business Diplomacy of Anna Chennault as Nixon’s Envoy in South Vietnam, 1967–1974
The Republican Party’s presidential candidate, Richard Nixon, enlisted Anna Chennault, a prominent lobbyist who belonged to high society circles in Washington, DC, to open a direct channel of communication with the South Vietnamese president, Nguyen Van Thieu, in 1967. Her brief was to convince Thieu to reject the peace negotiations that the president, Lyndon Johnson, had begun with North Vietnam. The diplomatic papers of the Thieu regime, housed…
Moonshiners, Black Marketers, and Thieves among Us”
President Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969) often worried that widespread corruption was sabotaging the struggle to build the new nation of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam (DRV or North Vietnam) he had f
Restoring Agency to Informal Diplomats in Narratives of the Vietnam War
The history of the diplomacy of the Vietnam War perennially suffers from two lapses. First, scholarly literature almost completely ignores informal diplomacy between North Vietnam and the wider world. Scholars have neglected to grant political and diplomatic agency to ordinary citizens of North Vietnam and the West who regularly interacted to pressure U.S. presidents to end the war in Vietnam. Secondly, the accounts are largely written from Weste…
Soviet Biscuit Factories and Chinese Financial Grants
Journal Article Soviet Biscuit Factories and Chinese Financial Grants: North Vietnam's Economic Diplomacy in 1967 and 1968 Get access Harish C. Mehta Harish C. Mehta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 36, Issue 2, April 2012, Pages 301–335, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2011.01024.x Published: 23 February 2012
Fighting, Negotiating, Laughing
The scene: A conference room at a private villa in the outskirts of Paris, at Avenue du General Leclerc, Gif sur Yvette, 91 Essonne. Diplomatic delegations of North Vietnam and the United States ar
North Vietnam’s Informal Diplomacy with Bertrand Russell
This article offers a new interpretation of the combined peace activism of the British philosopher‐activist Bertrand Russell and the North Vietnamese. Three new perspectives are offered on their global activism, which had a significant—but grossly understated—impact on the U.S. government. First, the article writes ordinary Vietnamese people into the diplomacy of the Vietnam War, which has largely been written from the perspective of powerful wor…
Cambodia
North Vietnam’s Informal Diplomacy with Bertrand Russell
This article offers a new interpretation of the combined peace activism of the British philosopher‐activist Bertrand Russell and the North Vietnamese. Three new perspectives are offered on their global activism, which had a significant—but grossly understated—impact on the U.S. government. First, the article writes ordinary Vietnamese people into the diplomacy of the Vietnam War, which has largely been written from the perspective of powerful wor…
Cambodia
Soviet Biscuit Factories and Chinese Financial Grants
Journal Article Soviet Biscuit Factories and Chinese Financial Grants: North Vietnam's Economic Diplomacy in 1967 and 1968 Get access Harish C. Mehta Harish C. Mehta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 36, Issue 2, April 2012, Pages 301–335, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2011.01024.x Published: 23 February 2012
Fighting, Negotiating, Laughing
The scene: A conference room at a private villa in the outskirts of Paris, at Avenue du General Leclerc, Gif sur Yvette, 91 Essonne. Diplomatic delegations of North Vietnam and the United States ar
North Vietnam’s Informal Diplomacy with Bertrand Russell
This article offers a new interpretation of the combined peace activism of the British philosopher‐activist Bertrand Russell and the North Vietnamese. Three new perspectives are offered on their global activism, which had a significant—but grossly understated—impact on the U.S. government. First, the article writes ordinary Vietnamese people into the diplomacy of the Vietnam War, which has largely been written from the perspective of powerful wor…
Restoring Agency to Informal Diplomats in Narratives of the Vietnam War
The history of the diplomacy of the Vietnam War perennially suffers from two lapses. First, scholarly literature almost completely ignores informal diplomacy between North Vietnam and the wider world. Scholars have neglected to grant political and diplomatic agency to ordinary citizens of North Vietnam and the West who regularly interacted to pressure U.S. presidents to end the war in Vietnam. Secondly, the accounts are largely written from Weste…
Moonshiners, Black Marketers, and Thieves among Us”
President Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969) often worried that widespread corruption was sabotaging the struggle to build the new nation of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam (DRV or North Vietnam) he had f
The Secret Business Diplomacy of Anna Chennault as Nixon’s Envoy in South Vietnam, 1967–1974
The Republican Party’s presidential candidate, Richard Nixon, enlisted Anna Chennault, a prominent lobbyist who belonged to high society circles in Washington, DC, to open a direct channel of communication with the South Vietnamese president, Nguyen Van Thieu, in 1967. Her brief was to convince Thieu to reject the peace negotiations that the president, Lyndon Johnson, had begun with North Vietnam. The diplomatic papers of the Thieu regime, housed…
The 50th Anniversary of the Reunification of Vietnam, 1975-2025
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Vietnam War (5 works) · Diplomacy (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works)