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The universe unraveling American foreign policy in Cold War Laos

During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, Laos was positioned to become a major front in the Cold War. Yet American policymakers ultimately chose to resist communism in neighboring South Vietnam instead. Two generations of historians have explained this decision by citing logistical conside...

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Main Author: Jacobs, Seth 1964- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore NUS Press 2013
Series:The United States in the world.
Subjects:
International relations
United States > Foreign relations > Laos
Laos > Foreign relations > United States
United States > Foreign relations > 1953-1961
United States > Foreign relations > 1961-1963
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Table of Contents:
  • A long country inhabited by lotus eaters : Washington encounters Laos
  • A soft buffer : Laos in the Eisenhower administration's grand strategy
  • Help the seemingly unhelpable : Little America and the U.S. aid program in Laos
  • Foreigners who want to enslave the country : American neocolonialism, Lao defiance
  • Doctor Tom and Mister Pop : American icons in Laos
  • Retarded children : Laos in the American popular imagination
  • No place to fight a war : Washington backs away from Laos.

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