This work explore America's anticommunist efforts in Laos during the Cold War. It shows how these efforts did not consider the politics, history and culture of Laos, and how these efforts were also reflected later in Vietnam.
In the decade preceding the first U.S. combat operations in Vietnam, the Eisenhower administration sought to defeat a communist-led insurgency in neighboring Laos. Although U.S. foreign policy in the 1950s focused primarily on threats posed by the Soviet Union and the People's R…
Profile of Austro-Thai-speaking peoples
This dissertation explores border relationships, conflicts and cooperation between Thailand and its four contiguous neighbors (Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia and Myanmar) from 1973 to 2011. The dissertation probes the following questions: What causes border conflict? Why do some of th…
“Of all the social processes, conflict is perhaps the most universal and potentially the most dangerous. A feature of every society and every form of relationship, conflict can be found at all levels of human interaction, from sibling rivalry to genocidal warfare (Bercovitch and…
Sino-Lao relations from 1954 through 1995, in the context of world politics, and with particular emphasis on the theory and practice of the five principles of peaceful coexistence, is the subject of this work. In chapter one the historical setting for Sino-Lao relations is prese…
Associations among soil microstructural type and behaviour, soil erodibility, and soil erosion were investigated at seven research sites of the International Board for Soil Research and Management (IBSRAM) Asialand Sloping Lands Network in Southeast Asia (Chiang Mai and Chiang R…