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Laotian Lessons

In addition to helping Laos avoid dependence on a single ally, consistent engagement with Laos will allow the United States to promote its values in areas such as the environment and human rights.

Brett Dakin

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U.S. Foreign Policy Oct 26, 2016 Photo Gallery

The Unexploded Bombs of Laos

Over the course of nine years, starting in 1964, the United States rained down 580,000 bombs on Laos in a secret campaign to support the royal Lao government from...

Obama Administration Sep 6, 2016 Snapshot

Laotian Lessons

In addition to helping Laos avoid dependence on a single ally, consistent engagement with Laos will allow the United States to promote its values in areas such as the...

Brett Dakin

Energy Sep 1, 2016 Snapshot

Recharging Asia’s Battery

Barack Obama will be the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos, a poor, landlocked country whose large-scale efforts to dam the Mekong River threaten to...

David Roberts and Jalel Sager

U.S. President Barack Obama boards Air Force One to depart for Hawaii, on his way to tour Midway Atoll and attend summits in Laos and China, from Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nevada, August 31, 2016.

Political Economy January/February 2014 Comment

Six Markets to Watch: The Mekong Region

The Southeast Asian countries that line the Mekong River -- Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam, along with China’s southern Yunnan Province -- are finally fending...

Thitinan Pongsudhirak

Human Rights Fall 1979 Essay

The Indochina Refugee Crisis

Indochina is bleeding. Vietnam, Laos and Kampuchea discharge a massive flow of apparently permanent refugees, on a scale the world has not experienced since World War...

Barry Wain

U.S. Foreign Policy April 1971 Essay

Laos: Anatomy of an American Involvement

When President Kennedy came to office in 1961, he was startled to learn that almost 700 American soldiers, more than half of whom were members of the Special Forces,...

Roland A. Paul

U.S. Foreign Policy April 1970 Essay

Our Involvement in Laos

The debate over Laos, almost as intense if not as bitter as the Vietnam debate, has done more than clarify the nature of the American involvement in that patchwork...

Robert Shaplen

Security October 1964 Essay

Laos: Continuing Crisis

The April coup in Vientiane and the subsequent defeat of the neutralists at the Plain of Jars underscored the fact that the 1962 settlement was only a fig leaf, not a...

Eric Pace

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