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Author : Søren Ivarsson,Thommy Svensson,Stein Tønnesson
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 8787062429
Author : Martin Stuart-Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521597463
This authoritative and wide-ranging 1997 history traces events in this little-known country from ancient monarchy, through its establishment as a French colony, to independence in 1953, the People's Democratic Republic, and the present one-party authoritarianism. The book highlights Laos' complex and shifting political alliances. The struggle for independence from France was followed by a struggle for unity and neutrality in the face of persistent foreign intervention, as the country was drawn into the war in Vietnam. Only with the end of the Cold War and the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops has Laos been able to reassert its neutral foreign policy and develop a market economy. This book is an impressive political, social, cultural and economic history. It will be essential for anyone wanting to understand Laos as it joins ASEAN, faces great economic challenges and struggles to maintain its cultural identity.
Author : Martin Stuart-Fox,Simon Creak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538120286
Laos has the smallest population, the weakest military, and despite rapid economic growth in recent years, one of the lowest levels of per capita income in mainland Southeast Asia. Yet a glance at the map reveals its strategic location, between China and Cambodia and Thailand and Vietnam. As Laos was formerly a crossroads for trade routes, the socialist government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic seeks to transform the country into a prosperous crossroads at the heart of this rapidly developing region. Historical Dictionary of Laos, Fourth Edition provides an in-depth examination of one of the least-known countries in Southeast Asia through a detailed chronology, comprehensive introduction, and extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book will be an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Laos.
Author : Christopher E. Goscha,Søren Ivarsson
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 8791114020
Laos's emergence as a modern nation-state in the 20th century owed much to a complex interplay of internal and external forces. Arguing that the historiography of Laos needs to be understood in this wider context, this study considers how the Lao have written their own nationalist and revolutionary history "on the inside," while others-the French, Vietnamese, and Thais-have attempted to write the history of Laos "from the outside" for their own political ends. As nationalist historiography, like the formation of the nation-state, does not emerge within a nationalist vacuum but rather is created and contested from inside and out, this incisive volume's approach has applications and implications far beyond Laos.
Author : Catarina Kinnvall,Kristina Jönsson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415277303
An interdisciplinary text, this volume shows how simplified views of globalization, that define it as either good or bad, are unhelpful when analysing the impact globalizing forces are having on Asian societies.
Author : Raymond Bryant,Michael Parnwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134794119
Environmental Change in South-East Asia brings together scholars, journalists, consultants and NGO activists to explore the interaction of people, politics and ecology. Ostensibly "green" activities - plantation forestry, eco-tourism, hydro-electricity - are revealed as guises used by elites to promote their own political and economic interests. Highlighting fatal flaws in presently exclusive economic and ecological approaches, the authors stress that neither the quest for sustainable development nor the process of environmental change itself can be understood without reference to political processes.
Author : Marc Askew,Colin Long,William Logan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134323654
This book is a rich exploration of the country's political, social and cultural history and geo-political development from its creation to the present day.
Author : Latdavone Khamphouvong
Publisher : ศูนย์บริหารงานวิจัย สำนักงานมหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9786163983879
In 1986, Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) put into effect it's New Economic Mechanism (NEM) in its bid for modernization and development. With this national policy came the conversion of a predominantly agricultural and subsistence-based economy into one focused on commodity-driven production. The country's integration into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its signing of the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) made official its integration into the regional and internationnal economy. The once state-planned, socialist economy was restructured into an open, liberalized one. One sector that has experienced marked growth is manufacturing, specifically the garment industry, Domestic and foregin-owned garment factories established beginning in the earyl 1990s now have Laos exporting 80% of its garment products to European Union (EU) nations.
Author : 韦民
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
本书采用理论演绎和案例分析的方法，主要选择了挪威、格鲁吉亚、卡塔尔、老挝和新加坡几个典型小国，对它们的安全战略进行理论剖析，力图从中找到共同的规律。
Author : Mytte Fentz
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8787062569
Author : Holly High
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789971697709
In this important new book, High argues that poverty reduction policies are formulated and implemented in fields of desire. Drawing on psychoanalytic understandings of desire, she shows that such programs circulate around the question of what is lacking. Far from rational responses to measures of need, then, the politics of poverty are unconscious, culturally expressed, mutually contradictory, and sometimes contrary to self-interest. Based on long-term fieldwork in a Lao village that has been the subject of multiple poverty reduction and development programs, High's account looks at implementation on the ground. While these efforts were laudable in their aims of reducing poverty, they often failed to achieve their objectives. Local people received them with suspicion and disillusionment. Nevertheless, poverty reduction policies continued to be renewed by planners and even desired locally. High relates this to the force of aspirations among rural Lao, ambivalent understandings of power and the "post-rebellious" moment in contemporary Laos.
Author : Jerome Whitington
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501730924
In the 2000s, Laos was treated as a model country for the efficacy of privatized, "sustainable" hydropower projects as viable options for World Bank-led development. By viewing hydropower as a process that creates ecologically uncertain environments, Jerome Whitington reveals how new forms of managerial care have emerged in the context of a privatized dam project successfully targeted by transnational activists. Based on ethnographic work inside the hydropower company, as well as with Laotians affected by the dam, he investigates how managers, technicians and consultants grapple with unfamiliar environmental obligations through new infrastructural configurations, locally-inscribed ethical practices, and forms of flexible experimentation informed by American management theory. Far from the authoritative expertise that characterized classical modernist hydropower, sustainable development in Laos has been characterized by a shift from the risk politics of the 1990s to an ontological politics in which the institutional conditions of infrastructure investment are pervasively undermined by sophisticated ‘hactivism.’ Whitington demonstrates how late industrial environments are infused with uncertainty inherent in the anthropogenic ecologies themselves. Whereas ‘anthropogenic’ usually describes human-induced environmental change, it can also show how new capacities for being human are generated when people live in ecologies shot through with uncertainty. Implementing what Foucault called a "historical ontology of ourselves," Anthropogenic Rivers formulates a new materialist critique of the dirty ecologies of late industrialism by pinpointing the opportunistic, ambitious and speculative ontology of capitalist natures.
Author : Larry Diamond
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781421409689
Predicts that East Asia, with its remarkable diversity of political regimes, economies, and religions, would likely be the critical arena in the global struggle for democracy, a prediction that has proven prescient. This title offers a treatment of the political landscape in both Northeast and Southeast Asia.
Author : Diane E. Davis,Anthony W. Pereira
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139439985
Existing models of state formation are derived primarily from early Western European experience, and are misleading when applied to nation-states struggling to consolidate their dominion in the present period. In this volume, scholars suggest that the Western European model of armies waging war on behalf of sovereign states does not hold universally. The importance of 'irregular' armed forces - militias, guerrillas, paramilitaries, mercenaries, bandits, vigilantes, police, and so on - has been seriously neglected in the literature on this subject. The case studies in this book suggest, among other things, that the creation of the nation-state as a secure political entity rests as much on 'irregular' as regular armed forces. For most of the 'developing' world, the state's legitimacy has been difficult to achieve, constantly eroding or challenged by irregular armed forces within a country's borders. No account of modern state formation can be considered complete without attending to irregular forces.
Author : Chris Dixon,David Drakakis-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429783029
First published in 1997, this volume responds to the rapid change in mid-1980s South East Asia, exploring the uneven distribution of development within the region and providing broad coverage of different aspects of this unevenness at both the regional and national levels. Specialists in economics, geography, planning and South East Asian studies contribute on issues including ethnicity and development in Malaysia, disadvantaged groups in Singapore and the impact of social and historical forces on uneven development in the region.
