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Laos

Commentary

Could the U.S. Play Offense in China's Back Yard?

Relations with Cambodia and Laos have fallen victim to the U.S. administration's foreign policy priority of shared values over shared interests. This approach has failed to make headway in Cambodia and Laos, isolates the United States in a region where few countries are true democracies, and unnecessarily cedes ground to Beijing.

Jan 13, 2022
Commentary

Vietnam Is Losing Its Best Friends to China

The wide range of Chinese activities with Cambodia and Laos must be jarring for Vietnamese leaders. China has eclipsed Vietnam in Indochina, and that means that Hanoi's angst will only continue to rise in its own backyard. Vietnam will likely have to find alternative means of engaging Cambodia and Laos to combat Chinese influence in this critical region in the years to come.

Nov 2, 2020
Journal Article

Preparing for the Introduction of Hospital Autonomy in Laos: An Assessment of Current Situation and Suggestions for Policy-Making

The purpose of this study is to assess the status quo of hospital governance in Laos and propose policy suggestions for hospital autonomy in the country.

Feb 18, 2015
Journal Article

Regional Infectious Disease Surveillance Networks and Their Potential to Facilitate the Implementation of the International Health Regulations

The International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005 present a challenge and opportunity for global surveillance and control of infectious diseases.

Jan 1, 2008
Report

User’s Guide to Southeast Asia Combat Data

A detailed guide to the vast body of available combat and combat-related data from the recent war in Southeast Asia.

Jan 1, 1976
Report

The Impact of U.S. Domestic Law on the Last Days of American Presence in Vietnam

A discussion of Public Law 93-50 forbidding expenditure of U.S. funds for combat in Cambodia, Laos, North Vietnam and South Vietnam after 15 August 1973, and the War Powers Resolution limiting the President's power to engage U.S. troops, and how...

Jan 1, 1975
Report

The Pathet Lao: Leadership and Organization

Analyzes the Laotian revolutionary movement commonly known as the Pathet Lao — its leaders, commanding party (People's Party of Laos), the Lao Patriotic Front, the political and administrative organization, and military forces.

Jan 1, 1973
Report

Organizing and Managing Unconventional War in Laos, 1962-1970

A case study in a broader examination of the strengths and weakness of the U.S. government in dealing with counterinsurgency.

Jan 1, 1972
Report

The Soviet Union, China, and the Pathet Lao: Analysis and Chronology

The ultimate outcome of events in Laos will be greatly affected by the policies of Moscow and Peking.

Jan 1, 1972
Report

PREMIR: A Prediction Model for Infiltration Routes

This mathematical computer model provides a systematic approach for investigating route selection criteria and degree of randomness, provided some infiltration routes are known to the investigator.

Jan 1, 1971
Report

Indochina in North Vietnamese Strategy

Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam have been recognized as an interdependent front by Communist strategists for 19 years. Vietnamese Communists have been involved in Indochinese affairs for approximately 40 years.

Jan 1, 1971
Report

Education in the Communist Zone of Laos

The discussion, supported by statistical data and providing comparisons with the non-Communist educational effort in Laos, covers the aims, organization, literacy drive, and accomplishments of the present Pathet Lao regime.

Jan 1, 1971
Report

Notes on Minority Policies in Laos, by Arthur D. Stillman.

Rapidly being enlisted on one side or the other as a result of the Southeast Asian war, the minorities in Laos are briefly profiled in these notes dealing with the social, economic, and political effects of the conflict between the Royal Lao and Path...

Jan 1, 1970
Report

Revolution in Laos: The North Vietnamese and the Pathet Lao

An analysis of the role of Vietnamese Communists in the Lao Communist (Pathet Lao) insurgency.

Jan 1, 1969
Report

Laos: Preparing for a Settlement in Vietnam

An outline of the military, political, and economic situation in Laos and the implications for a settlement in Vietnam.

Jan 1, 1969
Report

The North Vietnamese Military Adviser in Laos: A First Hand Account

An analysis of the North Vietnamese role in Laos.

Jan 1, 1968
Report

Comments on Bernard Fall's The Pathet Lao : A 'Liberation' Party.

A comment prepared in lieu of a revision of the late Bernard Fall's study of the Pathet Lao movement in Robert A. Scalapino (ed.), [The Communist Revolution in Asia]. In 1965, the international relations of the Pathet Lao movement and the role playe...

Jan 1, 1968
Report

Laos: Search for Peace in the Midst of War

A survey of political and economic developments in Laos during 1967.

Jan 1, 1967
Report

China's Relations with Asian Neighbors

A review of China's 1964 attitudes toward her Asian neighbors.

Jan 1, 1964
Report

The Role of North Vietnam in the Southern Insurgency

An examination of the role that North Vietnam is playing in the present struggle in South Vietnam. The Momorandum also discusses the function of Laos and Cambodia in providing passage and safe haven for the insurgents.

Jan 1, 1964

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Laos

Topic Synonyms:
Lao Peoples Democratic Republic

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Center for Asia Pacific Policy