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Hun Sen's Cambodia /Sebastian Strangio.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300190724
  • 9780300210149
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DS554 .H867 2014
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Contents:
EPILOGUE A Cambodian Spring? -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Illustration Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Subject: A fascinating analysis of the recent history of the beautiful but troubled Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia To many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the terror it inflicted in its attempt to create a communist utopia in the 1970s. Sebastian Strangio, a journalist based in the capital city of Phnom Penh, now offers an eye-opening appraisal of modern-day Cambodia in the years following its emergence from bitter conflict and bloody upheaval. In the early 1990s, Cambodia became the focus of the UN's first great post-Cold War nation-building project, with billions in international aid rolling in to support the fledgling democracy. But since the UN-supervised elections in 1993, the nation has slipped steadily backward into neo-authoritarian rule under Prime Minister Hun Sen. Behind a mirage of democracy, ordinary people have few rights and corruption infuses virtually every facet of everyday life. In this lively and compelling study, the first of its kind, Strangio explores the present state of Cambodian society under Hun Sen's leadership, painting a vivid portrait of a nation struggling to reconcile the promise of peace and democracy with a violent and tumultuous past.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

""Cover page ""; ""Halftitle page ""; ""Title page ""; ""Copyright page ""; ""Contents""; ""Epigraph ""; ""Illustrations ""; ""INTRODUCTION A Mirage on the Mekong""; ""Map of Cambodia ""; ""CHAPTER ONE Against the Ages""; ""CHAPTER TWO The Second Revolution""; ""CHAPTER THREE The Wages of Peace""; ""CHAPTER FOUR A False Dawn""; ""CHAPTER FIVE Potemkin Democracy""; ""CHAPTER SIX The Peasant King""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN Hunsenomics and Its Discontents""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT “A City With No Smoke and No Sound�""; ""CHAPTER NINE The Scramble for Cambodia""; ""CHAPTER TEN A Hundred Lotuses Blooming?""

CHAPTER ELEVEN An Improbable StateCHAPTER TWELVE UNTAC Redux -- EPILOGUE A Cambodian Spring? -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Illustration Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments -- Index

A fascinating analysis of the recent history of the beautiful but troubled Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia To many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the terror it inflicted in its attempt to create a communist utopia in the 1970s. Sebastian Strangio, a journalist based in the capital city of Phnom Penh, now offers an eye-opening appraisal of modern-day Cambodia in the years following its emergence from bitter conflict and bloody upheaval. In the early 1990s, Cambodia became the focus of the UN's first great post-Cold War nation-building project, with billions in international aid rolling in to support the fledgling democracy. But since the UN-supervised elections in 1993, the nation has slipped steadily backward into neo-authoritarian rule under Prime Minister Hun Sen. Behind a mirage of democracy, ordinary people have few rights and corruption infuses virtually every facet of everyday life. In this lively and compelling study, the first of its kind, Strangio explores the present state of Cambodian society under Hun Sen's leadership, painting a vivid portrait of a nation struggling to reconcile the promise of peace and democracy with a violent and tumultuous past.

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