Introduction; L.Holmes Comparative Introduction; S.Balme & M.Sidel PART I: THE STATE, REFORM, AND THE ROLE OF THE LAW Legal Reform in Public Administration: Building Blocks for the Rule of Law?; K. Buhman Political Reforms at the Crossroads: A Sociology of the Vietnamese National Assembly; M.Salomon The Administration of Hanoi in the 1990s; D.Koh Vietnamese Courts: Party-State and Law; P.Nicholson The Changing Relationship between Lawyers and Prosecutors in Vietnam; N. Hung Quang Legal Reform in Whose Interests? Text, Implementation and Reality in Vietnamese Law: Illuminations from Vietnamese Labor Export and Its Regulation; M.Sidel PART II: VIETNAM AND THE WORLD ISSUES OF INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION Vietnam’s Integration into the World: National and Global Interfaces; E.Palmujoki Vietnam’s Entry into the World Trade Organization: Limits to its Sovereignty?; V.Mazyrin Vietnam’s Regional Integration: The Costs and Benefits of Multilateralism; C. Thayer Vietnam’s Sovereignty and Regional Integration; R.Amer Testing an Institutionalist Approach to Relations between Vietnam and ASEAN; N.Vu Tung Economic Interdependence Within ASEAN: A Vietnamese Strategy to Develop the Country and Reinforce National Security; H.Do-Benoit

STEPHANIE BALME is tenured Research Fellow at Sciences Po.

MARK SIDEL is Professor of Law at the University of Iowa, USA.