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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2012.
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| Collection: | United States in the world.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.