...Arthur J. Dommen Political Struggles in Laos (1930–1954): Vietnamese Communist Power and the Lao Struggle for National Independence . By Geoffrey C. Gunn . Bangkok : Editions Duang Kamol , 1988 . xii, 325 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990...

...Arthur J. Dommen 528 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Readers might have benefitted from an overall discussion of subregional variation and the problems associated with ethnographic regions. For example, central and southern Maluku societies share much with societies to the west, while the northern...

...George Dutton The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam . By Arthur J. Dommen . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2001 . xiii , 1172 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

.... and McCoy Alfred W. . New York : Harper and Row , 1971 . xxiii , 482 pp. Illustrations, Selected Bibliography, Index. $15.00. Conflict in Laos: The Politics of Neutralization . By Dommen Arthur J. . New York : Praeger , Revised Edition, 1971 . xvi , 454 pp. Tables, Illustrations...

...Joel M. Halpern Conflict in Laos: the Politics of Neutralization . By Arthur J. Dommen . New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1964 . xiv, 338 . Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $5.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 BOOK REVIEWS 703 choosing certain...

...Charles F. Keyes Laos: Keystone of Indochina . By Arthur J. Dommen . Boulder Colo .: Westview Press , 1985 . xviii, 182 pp. $38.00. Contemporary Laos: Studies in the Politics and Society of the Lao People's Democratic Republic . Edited by Martin Stuart-Fox . New York .: St...

... as these conceptually problematic figures represent political elites who bear comment in the cable traffic of American embassies, the source most prominently employed by Arthur Dommen. His reliance on such sources causes him to downplay the experiences of the vast majority of ordinary people who arguably suffered...

... Conflict in Laos: the Politics of Neutralization. By ARTHUR J. DOMMEN. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1964. xiv, 338. Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $5.95. For the serious scholar there are few books dealing with Laos, especially with respect to the post-war political situation. Conflict in Laos...

... arts, or culture in general all areas included in the previous edition. Also, whereas in the previous edition the six coauthors were jointly responsible, in the new edition the authors of each chapter are named. The historical overview is the work of Arthur Dommen, a political commentator with a long...

... Laos as a buffer state will succeed. It is inevitable that mistakes in the few available sources on Laos will be transmitted to others. For example, the author repeats the error of Arthur Dommen and Bernard Fall in their descriptions of the ruling party of the Pathet Lao regions, labelling it the Phak...

..., and Arthur Dommen. There are also formal political statements, such as in the chapter on relations between Laos and Thailand, by diplomats from the two countries. There is also a UN document dealing with problems of development. In addition, there are partial memoirs related to the period of service of two...

..., illus. tuees dans le cadre du programme d'hydraulique Politics and Government agricole, par J. J. Bordier. Rome, 1963. 17 p. (Expanded technical assistance program, FAO Books report no. 1668) DOMMEN, ARTHUR J. Conflict in Laos; the politics 210 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ASIAN STUDIES 1964 of neutralization. New...

... will be transmitted to others. For example, the author repeats the error of Arthur Dommen and Bernard Fall in their descriptions of the ruling party of the Pathet Lao regions, labelling it the Phak Khon Ngan, or Lao Labor Party. There is now clear evidence, including acknowledgement by Pathet Lao broadcasts...

...Irving Rouse 704 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Granted that Mr. Dommen's emphasis is on political events, there is little attempt to evaluate in any comprehensive fashion the great body of facts given. It would seem important, for example, to know how the author regards the Lao elite as a group...

... J. Dommen's 1993 "Social Science Research on Laos in the United States." Unfortunately the volume focuses on the LPDR government and the Lowland Lao, omitting the diversity which makes the Lao state an important Southeast Asian experiment. A UNESCO conference on "The safeguarding and promotion...

... OF ASIAN STUDIES direction will soon replace the approach represented by Dommen's book, which makes Laos but a footnote to the war in Vietnam. CHARLES F. KEYES University of Washington Malay Society in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Beginnings of Change. By J. M. GULLICK. East Asian Historical Monographs...

..., which have already well described the political situation and events of this period, for example, MacAlister Brown and Joseph Zasloff s Apprentice Revolutionaries (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1986), and Arthur Dommen's earlier Conflict in Laos (New York: Praeger, 1971). Castle does quantify some...

... forces, and provides a good review of contemporary events in the formation of FUNK and the difficulties in the ties between Hanoi and its allies within Cambodia. In a brief piece on Laos, Arthur Dommen guides us through the thicket of recent RLG internal politics. As with the pieces on the Thieu and Lon...

..., Dommen, and Halpern are superseded insofar as they attempt to describe the relationship between Hanoi and the Pathet Lao. And the journalistic comments by Hilsman, Hoopes, Goodwin, and the lesser host of quickie experts on Vietnam who touch upon the Vietnamese-Lao link should be largely ignored now...

... remain a great power for long? Warner's book is priced to be affordable to students and should be on the reading list of university courses in diplomacy for years to come. ARTHUR J. DOMMEN The Indochina Institute, George Mason University Islamic Peasants and the State: The 1908 Anti-Tax Rebellion in West...