Hung Nguyen, associate professor of government and international relations at George Mason University, discussed Vietnamese politics on Wednesday, March 2, at Johns Hopkins University's D.C. campus. The event was titled, "Implications of the Vietnamese Community Party's 11th Congress."
Last fall, Nguyen earned a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant to conduct seminars on American foreign policy and U.S-Vietnam relations at the Diplomatic Academy and the Institute for Foreign Policy and Strategic Studies in Hanoi.
In 1960, he earned a scholarship to study in the United States as a Vietnamese graduate student. Then, in 2006, he obtained a Fulbright scholarship to conduct research in Vietnam as an American scholar.
Nguyen was in Hanoi when the country marked the 15th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and the United States. He participated in two conferences involving both Vietnamese and American scholars. He spoke to members of such organizations and agencies as the Institute for Defense Foreign Relations of the Ministry of Defense, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Public Administration and the Central Theoretical Council of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
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