Cambodia: Change and Continuity in Contemporary Politics

ISBN-13: 9781138723672 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 596 str.

Sorpong Peou

Opis

This title was first published in 2001. This text offers a comprehensive view of controversial issues surrounding Cambodia's past, present and possible future development. It brings together a selection of journal articles about the wartorn country to examine critical issues concerning change and continuity in contemporary Cambodian politics.

Spis treści

I: Perspectives on Violence and War: The Elusive Search for Peace?; 1: The Cambodia Settlement Agreements; 2: The Cambodian Waltz: The Khmer Rouge and United Nations Intervention; 3: Understanding the Khmer; 4: The Challenge of Conflict Resolution in Cambodia; 5: Hun Sen's Pre-Emptive Coup; II: Perspectives on Legal Development: The Constitution, Human Rights Issues and the Pursuit of Justice; 6: The New Cambodian Constitution: From Civil War to A Fragile Democracy; 7: International Law and Cambodian Genocide: The Sounds of Silence; 8: Forgetting “The Policies and Practices of the Past”: Impunity in Cambodia; 9: Toward A Culture of Human Rights in Cambodia; 10: Teaching Human Rights in Cambodia; III: Perspectives on Political Development: Towards a Triumph of Liberal Democracy?; 11: Democracy Lost? The Fate of the U.N.-implanted Democracy in Cambodia 1; 12: Understanding Cambodia's Political Developments; 13: Cambodia's Fading Hopes; 14: The Myth of Cambodia's Recovery; 15: The Cambodian Elections of 1998 and Beyond: Democracy in the Making?; IV: Perspectives on Gender and Racial Relations: Towards Social Harmony and Peace?; 16: Khmer Kinship: The Matriliny/Matriarchy Myth; 17: Politics and Gender: Negotiating Conceptions of the Ideal Woman in Present Day Cambodia; 18: Women and Land Rights in Cambodia; 19: The Vietnamese minority in Cambodia; 20: The Ethnic Vietnamese in Cambodia: A Minority at Risk?; V: Perspectives on Economic Development: Towards Prosperity?; 21: Rehabilitation and Economic Reconstruction in Cambodia; 22: Cambodia and the “Washington Consensus”; 23: Education, Teacher Training and Prospects for Economic Recovery in Cambodia; 24: The Political Economy of the Royal Government of Cambodia; 25: Development in a wartom society: what next in Cambodia?

O autorze

Sorpong Peou