The Pomona Politics Department

David Elliott

H. Russell Smith Professor of International Relations and Professor of Politics, 1977

B.A., Yale University

Ph.D., Cornell University

Contact Information

Office: Carnegie 20

Phone Number: 909-607-2463

E-mail: david.elliott@pomona.edu

Classes

Politics 7: U.S. Foreign Policy (current)

Politics 72A: Traditional and Early Modern International Relations of Asia

Politics 72B: Contemporary International Relations of Asia

Politics 82: The Vietnam War (current)

Politics 171: Remaking the World

Politics 173: Worlds in Collision

Politics 190D: Senior Seminar in Problems of U.S. Foreign Policy

Research Interests

Asian Security Issues

Vietnam War

U.S. Foreign Policy

Selected Publications

The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta (M.E. Sharpe, 2002)

"Wag the Dog: Vietnam and the Cold War," Rosenbaum and Lee eds., The Cold War - Reassessments, (Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, 2000)

"Deadlock Diplomacy: Thai and Vietnamese Interests in Kampuchea" in The Cambodian Agony (Albin & Hood, eds., M.E. Sharpe, 1987)

"Vietnam in Asia: Strategy and Diplomacy in a New Context," International Journal, Spring 1983

"Training and Revolutionary Successors in Vietnam and China: the Role of Education, Science, and Technology in Development," Comparative Communism, Fall 1982

"Vietnam, Kampuchea and United States Interests," prepared statement to the House Sub-Committee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, October 15, 1981, reprinted in U.S. Policy Toward Indochina Since Vietnam's Occupation of Kampuchea, USGPO, 1981

"Vietnam" in Marxist Governments: A World Survey, Vol. 3 (Bogdan Szakowski, ed., Macmillan, 1981)