Stock ID #135659 Britain and the Neutralisation of Laos. NICHOLAS TARLING.

Britain and the Neutralisation of Laos

Singapore. NUS Press. 2011. Stock ID #135659

516pp, notes, index, paperback.

Focusing on the Geneva conference on Laos of 1961-2, which Britain played an important part in, this book illuminates British policy in Southeast Asia at the time. Making use of the British archives on the conference it also is of interest to people interested in Vietnamese and Southeast Asian history of this period. The core of hte Geneva settlement was the neutralisation of Laos. That was, however, an argument for the United States to strengthen its commitment to Thailand and Vietnam. It could, moreover, be accepted by North Vietnam only if it did not prevent continued use of the Ho Chi Minh trail, through which it could sustain resistance in South Vietnam. Under such circumstances, the agreement ofn neutralisation, though elaborately negotiated, had little chance of success. In the longer term, however, it was not without its legacy, for the agreement played a part in developing the concept of a neutral Southeast Asia that ASEAN was later to advance.

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