Benoît de Tréglodé is Director of Research at the Institute for Strategic Research Paris (IRSEM) and at the Center of Asian Studies (EHESS-CNRS, Paris). He was formally Director of the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) in Bangkok. He has also published several books on Vietnam, including Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam (NUS Press, Singapore, 2012); Viet Nam Contemporary (co-dir S. Dovert , Les Indes Savantes, Paris, 2009); and Birth of a party state, Vietnam since 1945 (co -dir . C. Goscha , Les Indes Savantes, Paris, 2004).