
Josef Silverstein
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LOCATION: New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Author of Burma: Military Rule and the Politics of Stagnation and others.
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Laos, landlocked country of northeast-central mainland Southeast Asia. It consists of an irregularly round portion in the north that narrows into a peninsula-like region stretching to the southeast. Overall, the country extends about 650 miles (1,050 km) from northwest to southeast. The capital is…
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