The search for peace in Vietnam, 1964-1968 / edited by Lloyd C. Gardner and Ted Gittinger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Perpetual war for perpetual peace / Robert Divine -- Fighting while negotiating / Marilyn Young -- Discussions, not negotiations : the Johnson Administration's Diplomacy at the outset of the Vietnam War / David Kaiser -- The Pennsylvania peace initiative, June-October, 1967 / Robert K. Brigham and George C. Herring -- The mirage of negotiations / Edwin E. Mo詳e -- Who gave peace a chance? LBJ and the antiwar movement / Melvin Small -- George McGovern and Mr. Johnson's war : a liberal democrat dissents / Thomas J. Knock -- Missions impossible : Canadian secret diplomacy and the quest for peace in Vietnam / Andrew Preston --'How fuzzy can one be?' : the American reaction to De Gaulle's proposal for the neutralization of (South) Vietnam / Charles G. Cogan -- De Gaulle and the Vietnam War / Maurice Va詳se -- Triangle of discord : the United States, Germany, and French peace initiatives for Vietnam / Wilfried Mausbach -- The Aspen channel and the problem of the bombing / Fredrik Logevall -- The Japanese government's peace efforts in the Vietnam War, 1965-1968 / Hideki Kan -- The limits of peacemaking : India and the Vietnam War, 1962-1968 / Mark A. Lawrence -- Peacemaking or troubleshooting? : the Soviet role in peace initiatives during the Vietnam War / Ilya V. Gaiduk -- China's response to French peace initiatives / Qiang Zhai --'A half-hearted overture' : Czechoslovakia, Kissinger, and Vietnam, autumn, 1966 / James G. Hershberg -- The Pentagon and peace negotiations after March 31, 1968 / Herbert Y. Schandler -- The shape of the table : Nguyen Van Thieu and negotiations to end the conflict / John Prados -- Vietnam and the origins of dente / H.W. Brands.