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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">The Russian Journal of Vietnamese Studies</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">The Russian Journal of Vietnamese Studies</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вьетнамские исследования</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic">2618-9453</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the RAS</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">87076</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24412/2618-9453-2021-3-6-26</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Challenges into Opportunities: The Blossoming of Vietnam’s Multidirectional Foreign Policy at the 13th CPV Congress</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>XIII съезд КПВ об успехах многосторонней внешней политики Вьетнама: вызовы и возможности</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Chapman</surname><given-names>N.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Чапмэн</surname><given-names>Н.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Ph.D. (International Relations), Researcher and Editor</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>к. полит. н., научный сотрудник, редактор</p></bio><email>nchapman@iuj.ac.jp</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Tohoku University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Университет Тохоку</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2021-09-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>09</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>5</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">NO3 (2021)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">№3 (2021)</issue-title><fpage>6</fpage><lpage>26</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2021-11-05"><day>05</day><month>11</month><year>2021</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2021, Chapman N.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2021, Чапмэн Н.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Chapman N.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Чапмэн Н.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://vietnamjournal.ru/2618-9453/article/view/87076">https://vietnamjournal.ru/2618-9453/article/view/87076</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The 13th Party Congress represents 30 years since Vietnam embarked on a multidirectional foreign policy. This foreign policy is centered upon diversification, multilateralization, and continued integration into the international economy. To achieve these aims, Vietnam utilizes strategic and comprehensive partnerships, free-trade agreements, and multilateral forums such as ASEAN and the UN. This foreign policy has helped Vietnam achieve rapid economic development, gain a high amount of security without compromising its autonomy or independence, and seen it play a more proactive role on the international stage. The 13th Party Congress saw a continuation of this foreign policy with an added emphasis on comprehensive diplomacy. This study explores the intervening years to the congress, arguing that multidirectionalism has helped Vietnam manage the turbulence of increased big-power tensions, anti-globalization, anti-multilateralization, and China’s belligerence in the South China Sea. Furthermore, a proactive, multi-pronged diplomatic initiative in the years after the 12th Party Congress turned many of these challenges into opportunities, allowing Vietnam to further its national interests. As a result, these initiatives have now blossomed into a comprehensive diplomatic strategy at the 13th Party Congress, adding another mechanism to Vietnam’s foreign policy arsenal.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>XIII съезд КПВ отсчитал 30 лет с начала многовекторной внешней политики Вьетнама. Она сфокусирована на диверсификации, многосторонности и углублении интеграции в международную экономику. Для достижения этих целей Вьетнам использует стратегическое и всеобъемлющее партнерства, соглашения о свободной торговле и многосторонние форумы, например, АСЕАН и ООН. Такая внешняя политика помогла Вьетнаму достичь быстрого экономического развития, обеспечить высокий уровень безопасности без ущерба для своей самостоятельности и независимости, показала, что он играет все более активную роль на международной арене. XIII съезд партии призвал к продолжению этой внешней политики с особым упором на всеобъемлющую дипломатию. В статье также рассматривается предшествующий XIII съезду период и приводятся доводы в пользу того, что многовекторность помогла Вьетнаму справиться с турбулентностью, возникшей вследствие роста напряжённости между крупными державами, действий сил антиглобализма и антимультилатерализма и воинственности Китая в Южно-Китайском море. Кроме того, многие из этих проблем ему удалось за счёт активной многосторонней дипломатической инициативы в годы после XII съезда КПВ превратить в возможности для отстаивания своих национальных интересов. На XIII съезде партии эти инициативы оформлены в виде всеобъемлющей дипломатической стратегии, и внешнеполитический арсенал Вьетнама пополнился еще одним механизмом.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Vietnam foreign policy</kwd><kwd>multidirectionalism</kwd><kwd>13th Party Congress</kwd><kwd>Vietnamese CommunistParty</kwd><kwd>strategic partnerships</kwd><kwd>Free Trade Agreements</kwd><kwd>multilateralism</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>вьетнамская внешняя политика</kwd><kwd>многовекторность</kwd><kwd>XIII съезд КПВ</kwd><kwd>Коммунистическая партия Вьетнама</kwd><kwd>стратегическое партнерство</kwd><kwd>соглашения о свободной торговле</kwd><kwd>принцип многосторонности отношений</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Abuza Zachary The Fallout From Vietnam’s Communist Party Congress // The Diplomat, 02.02.2021. 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