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Laos

Commentary
With ASEAN Paralyzed, Southeast Asia Seeks New Security Ties
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations tirelessly proclaims its centrality to the region, but its inability to develop a coherent response to Chinese aggression or the crisis in Myanmar has effectively killed that claim. ASEAN members will inevitably continue to seek out alternative paths.
Sep 18, 2023
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

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RAND Topic:
Laos

Topic Synonyms:
Lao Peoples Democratic Republic

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Center for Asia Pacific Policy