동남아시아

Since its first appearance in the Eleventh Congress Documents of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), the concept of “cục diện thế giới” [world conjuncture] has been the foundation for Vietnamese official discourse on the regional and world political landscapes. However, there have been debates about this concept’s contents and its academic issues. As the CPV rushes to prepare for the summary of 40 years of Đổi Mới [Renovation] and the Fourteenth Congress scheduled for early 2026, it is an opportune time to look back on more than a decade of developing a Vietnam-specific international research approach based on the concept of world conjuncture. This article generalises this concept’s basic connotations and identifies the relationship between world conjuncture and world order from the Vietnamese public perspective. On this basis, the article clarifies the elements of world conjuncture based on the Vietnamese viewpoints, from which the predictability of Vietnamese assessments, especially those of the CPV, for upcoming regional and international conjuncture could be, to some extent, improved.