1. Full name: Dang Thi Thanh Hoa                      2. Sex: Female

3. Date of birth: 21/10/1980                                 4. Place of birth: Lang Son

5. Admission decision number: 2798/QĐ-XHNV-SĐH dated 28/12/2012 of Rector, The University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

6. Changes in academic process: Decision No.113/QD-XHNV dated 15/01/2016 and decision No.4617/QĐ-XHNV dated 29/12/2016 of Rector, The University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi about extending study time for PhD students

Decision No.382/QĐ-XHNV dated 28/02/2017 of Rector, The University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi on adjusting the name of doctoral thesis.

7. Official thesis title: To ensure the political security of the ethnic minority areas in the Vietnam-Laos border, Dien Bien province today.

8. Major: Politics                                                     9. Code: 62 31 02 01

10. Supervisors:

1. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lam Ba Nam

2. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vu Hoang Cong

 11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis

Ensuring political security in ethnic minority areas is a top priority from many scholars, approaching at different angles. For the first time, the issue of ensuring political security in ethnic minority areas is approached from the political point of view. In that sense, the thesis has made new scientific contributions, namely:

- Contribute to clarify some basic concepts such as ethnic minorities, ethnic minorities, land borders and ethnic minorities on the land border. Besides, the thesis is also clarified some theoretical issues on political security and political security of ethnic minority areas on land border; the views of the Party and the State in ensuring the political security of ethnic minority areas on the land border; subjects, responsibility of the subjects; the content and factors affecting the political security of the ethnic minorities areas on the Vietnam’s land border.

- Survey on the actual situation in ensuring the political security of ethnic minorities in Viet Nam and Laos’s boder from 2005 to present (2016), thereby giving the experienced lession in ensuring the political security of ethnic minorities in Vietnam and Laos’s boder in Dien Bien province.

- Forecast on the happening possibility of the situation, advantages and difficulties in ensuring the political security of ethnic minority areas along with the Vietnam-Laos border in Dien Bien province in the coming time; proposing the measures to ensure the political security of ethnic minorities areas in Vietnam and Laos’ s boder in Dien Bien province.

12. Practical of applicability, if any: Tobe references to researching and teaching related issues in the field of political science as well as references for the leaders, managers in studying the renewal to perfect political system in Vietnam today.

Providing the scientific basis for the leadership of Party committees and local authorities in ensuring the political security of ethnic minority areas. Researching results can be used as reference materials in researching, teaching and learning activities for staffs, lecturers and students of institutes, universities, colleges... in Vietnam on insuring the security in general, security politics of ethnic minority in particular.

13. Further research directions, if any: To study the factors influencing the political security of the ethnic minority areas of the Vietnam-Laos border in Dien Bien province.

14. Thesis – related publications (List them in chronological order):

1. Dang Thi Thanh Hoa (2009), "Police work involved in resolving large-scale petitions. Some Experiential Issues", Magazine of Security Science and Education (3), pp.74-75.

2. Dang Thi Thanh Hoa, Do Duc Thang (2012), "Ensuring security and order in the border line in Dien Bien province", Magazine of Police and social order safety (7), pp. 31-35.

3. Dang Thi Thanh Hoa (2017), "Addressing the problem of illegal propaganda in ethnic minority areas of the Vietnam-Laos border in Dien Bien province", Magazine of Theoretical Education (256), pp. 41-50.

4. Dang Thi Thanh Hoa (2017), "A number of measures to ensure political security in the Vietnamese-Lao border region of Dien Bien province", Magazine of Political Theory (3), pp. 90-94.

5. Dang Thi Thanh Hoa (2017), "Socio-economic development, security and defense of the Mong ethnic group in Dien Bien Province", Magazine of Party History (4), pp. 105-110.