Eugenie Margareta Blang, "To urge common sense on the Americans: United States' relations with France, Great Britain, and the Federal Republic of Germany in the context of the Vietnam War, 1961-1968. Ph.D. dissertation, College of William and Mary, 2000. 284 pp. AAT 9989342. Rather short for such a broad topic. The full text is available online if you are browsing the Internet from an institution, such as Clemson University, that has a subscription to ProQuest "Dissertations and Theses: Full Text."
Edward Burton, The Swedish-American Press and the Vietnam War. Göteborg, Sweden: Department of History, University of Göteborg, 2003. x, 324 pp. A doctoral thesis, published by the university that granted the degree. So far I have only found time to skim this, but it looks good. Chapter 5, "The Swedish-American Press on Sweden," contains useful information about the attitudes of the Swedish public, media, and government toward the Vietnam War.
Knut Einar Eriksen and Helge Oystein Pharo, Kald krig og internasjonalisering 1949-1965 (Cold war and internationalization 1949-1965). Oslo: Universitetsforlaget Oslo, 1997. 505 pp. The fifth volume of a history of Norwegian foreign policy.
Alexandra Margareta Friedrich, "Awakenings: The impact of the Vietnam War on West German-American Relations in the 1960s." Ph.D. dissertation, Temple University, 2000. 424 pp. AAT 9990315. The full text is available online if you are browsing the Internet from an institution, such as Clemson University, that has a subscription to ProQuest "Dissertations and Theses: Full Text."
Christoper Goscha and Maurice Vaïsse, eds., La guerre du Vietnam et l'Europe, 1963-1973. Bruxelles: Bruylant/Paris: L.G.D.J., 2003. xxvii, 491 pp. A collection of papers, some in French and some in English. A partial listing:
Hubert Zimmerman, "The Quiet German: The Vietnam War and the Federal Republic of Germany" (pp. 49-64)
R. Van der Maar, "Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs Joseph Luns and the Vietnam War (1963-1971)" (pp. 103-115)
Leopoldo Nuti, "L'Italie et l'escalade de la guerre du Vietnam" (pp. 131-150)
Vincent Dujardin, "La Belgique et la guerre du Vietnam" (pp. 151-167)
Jost Dülffer, "The Anti-Vietnam War Movement in West Germany (pp. 287-305)
Nadine Lubelski-Bernard, "L'opposition à la guerre du Vietnam en Belgique (1963-1973)" (pp. 307-326)
Kim Saloman, "The Anti-Vietnam War Movement in Sweden" (pp. 327-337)
Verdiana Grossi, "Aide au Vietnam: l'humanitaire politique et l'éveil de la Centrale sanitaire suisse 1965-1973" (pp. 339-361)
Marco Mugnaini, "Le Saint-Siege et la guerre du Vietnam" (pp. 401-414)
Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, Unionsparteien, Sozialdemokratie und Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika 1945-1966. Düsseldorf: Droste, 1983. 647 pp.
Ake Kilander, Vietnam var nära (I have seen this given in English as A Vietnam in Common With Us). Stockholm: Leopard förlag, 2007. 446 pp. Deals with the anti-war movement in Sweden; the author was a participant.
Fredrik Logevall, "The Swedish-American Conflict over Vietnam," Diplomatic History, Summer 1993, pp. 421-45.
Wilfried Mausbach, "Auschwitz and Vietnam: West German Protest Against America's War During the 1960s." In Andreas W. Daum, Lloyd C. Gardner, and Wilfried Mausbach, eds., America, the Vietnam War, and the World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 279-298.
Leopoldo Nuti, "The Center-Left Government in Italy and the Escalation of the Vietnam War." In Andreas W. Daum, Lloyd C. Gardner, and Wilfried Mausbach, eds., America, the Vietnam War, and the World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 259-278.
Urs Obrist, Die heimliche Anerkennung Südvietnams durch die Schweiz: Die Beziehungen der Schweiz zum geteilten Vietnam (1954-1963). (Switzerland’s clandestine recognition of South Vietnam. The relationship of Switzerland with the divided Vietnam 1954-1963). Frauenfeld/Stuttgart/Wien: Verlag Huber, 2001. 335 pp., illustr., app.
Heinz Schütte, Zwischen den Fronten: Deutsche und Österreichische Überläufer zum Viet Minh. Berlin: Logos Verlag Berlin, 2006. 371 pp. The story of one Austrian and two German Communists, who joined the French Foreign Legion early in World War II, were sent to Indochina, and defected to the Viet Minh in 1945. The Viet Minh lost trust in them in 1950; two returned to Europe in 1951, but one remained in Vietnam until 1966.
Carl-Gustaf Scott, "'A Good Offense is the Best Defense': Swedish Social Democracy, Europe, and the Vietnam War." Ph.D. dissertation, History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005. AAT 3200053. v, 961 pp. The full text is available online if you are browsing the Internet from an institution, such as Clemson University, that has a subscription to ProQuest "Dissertations and Theses: Full Text."
Mario Sica, Marigold non fiorì: il contributo italiano alla pace in Vietnam. Firenze: Ponte alle grazie, 1991. 143 pp.
Lars-Göran Stenelo, The International Critic. Perry Hadley, trans. Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1984. 193 pp. Deals with Swedish attitudes to the Vietnam War.
Alexander Troche, "Berlin wird am Mekong verteidigt": die Ostasienpolitik der Bundesrepublik in China, Taiwan und Süd-Vietnam, 1954-1966. Düsseldorf: Droste, 2001. 518 pp.
Jean-Rene de Ziegler, Vietnam Eyewitness. London: Today Publications, 1966. 48 pp. De Ziegler was editor-in-chief of the Geneva newspaper Le Courrier. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.
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