Hun Sen

Author : Sebastian Strangio
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300210149

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Hun Sen's Cambodia by Sebastian Strangio Pdf

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.

Author : Harish C. Mehta,Julie B. Mehta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015043060808

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Hun Sen by Harish C. Mehta,Julie B. Mehta Pdf

This is the first biography of a leader whose private life has until now been a closely guarded secret. But it is much more than an account of the life of Hun Sen -- it tells through his eyes the story of the emergence through slaughter of an innocent people. Essential reading for all those who are intrigued and bewildered by the complex recent history of Cambodia, and by the rapid rise of its new leader from obscurity to strongman status.

Author : Harish C. Mehta,Julie B. Mehta
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789814484602

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Strongman: The Extraordinary Life of Hun Sen by Harish C. Mehta,Julie B. Mehta Pdf

Strongman: The Extraordinary Life of Hun Sen is the biography of the Cambodian leader whose private life has been a closely guarded secret. Fully updated and revised from the authors' first edition (Hun Sen: Strongman of Cambodia, published 1999), this volume is based on recently declassified archival documents and hours of new interviews with Hun Sen, his wife Bun Rany, son Hun Manet, other family members and associates. The book chronicles the life of Hun Sen from obscurity as a pagoda boy to strongman status. It reveals the life of Hun Sen and Bun Rany under the Khmer Rouge regime, their tr.

Author : Sebastian Strangio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Cambodia
ISBN : 0300211732

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Cambodia by Sebastian Strangio Pdf

To many in the West, the word '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 mid-1970s. In this highly acclaimed account, Sebastian Strangio offers an updated appraisal of modern-day Cambodia since its emergence from an era of upheaval and bitter conflict. This is a vivid portrait of a nation struggling to reconcile the promises of peace and democracy with a dark and tumultuous past. Book jacket.

Author : Brad Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Cambodia
ISBN : 162313224X

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30 Years of Hun Sen by Brad Adams Pdf

"The 67-page report chronicles Hun Sen's career from being a Khmer Rouge commander in the 1970s to his present role as prime minister and head of the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP). The report details the violence, repression, and corruption that have characterized his rule under successive governments since 1985"--Publisher's description.

Author : Joel Brinkley
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610390019

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Cambodia's Curse by Joel Brinkley Pdf

A generation after the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia shows every sign of having overcome its history--the streets of Phnom Penh are paved; skyscrapers dot the skyline. But under this façade lies a country still haunted by its years of terror. Joel Brinkley won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Cambodia on the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime that killed one quarter of the nation's population during its years in power. In 1992, the world came together to help pull the small nation out of the mire. Cambodia became a United Nations protectorate--the first and only time the UN tried something so ambitious. What did the new, democratically-elected government do with this unprecedented gift? In 2008 and 2009, Brinkley returned to Cambodia to find out. He discovered a population in the grip of a venal government. He learned that one-third to one-half of Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge era have P.T.S.D.--and its afflictions are being passed to the next generation. His extensive close-up reporting in Cambodia's Curse illuminates the country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its modern-day behavior.

Author : Andrea Pressello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315514918

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Japan and the shaping of post-Vietnam War Southeast Asia by Andrea Pressello Pdf

The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1978 and the consequent outbreak of the Cambodian conflict brought Southeast Asia into instability and deteriorated relations between Vietnam and the subsequently established Vietnam-backed government in Cambodia on the one hand and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries on the other. As a result of the conflict, the Soviet Union established a foothold in Southeast Asia while China, through its support of the anti-Vietnam Cambodian resistance, improved relations with Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand. Japan's Fukuda Doctrine - it’s declared priorities of promoting cooperative and friendly relations between Communist Indochinese nations and non-Communist ASEAN countries – became increas¬ingly at odds with Japan’s role as a member of the Free World in the broader Cold War confrontation. Tokyo had to steer a path between Washington’s hard-line policy of isolating Vietnam and its own desire to prevent regional destabilization. Against this background, this book addresses the following questions: what was Japan’s response to the challenges to its objectives and interests in Southeast Asia and to the Fukuda Doctrine? What role did Japan play for the settlement of the conflict in Cambodia? How did Japan’s diplomacy on the Cambodian problem affect the Japanese role in the region? It argues that Japan’s contribution was more active than has widely been recognized.

Author : Astrid Noren-Nilsson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501725944

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Cambodia's Second Kingdom by Astrid Noren-Nilsson Pdf

Cambodia's Second Kingdom is an exploration of the role of nationalist imaginings, discourses, and narratives in Cambodia since the 1993 reintroduction of a multiparty democratic system. Competing nationalistic imaginings are shown to be a more prominent part of party political contestation in the Kingdom of Cambodia than typically believed. For political parties, nationalistic imaginings became the basis for strategies to attract popular support, electoral victories, and moral legitimacy. Astrid Norén-Nilsson uses uncommon sources, such as interviews with key contemporary political actors, to analyze Cambodia’s postconflict reconstruction politics. This book exposes how nationalist imaginings, typically understood to be associated with political opposition, have been central to the reworking of political identities and legitimacy bids across the political spectrum. Norén-Nilsson examines the entanglement of notions of democracy and national identity and traces out a tension between domestic elite imaginings and the liberal democratic framework in which they operate

Author : Roger East,Richard J. Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781317639404

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Profiles of People in Power by Roger East,Richard J. Thomas Pdf

Biographical profiles of the current head of state and head of government, and other recent incumbents of these positions who remain significant and active political leaders.

Author : Sorpong Peou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351756501

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Cambodia by Sorpong Peou Pdf

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. The book covers violence, war and peace, the Constitution, human rights and the pursuit of justice, democratic development and dilemmas, gender and ethnic relations and economic development and problems. These themes should be instructive for scholars, policymakers and interested individuals dealing with what has been termed "triple transition": from armed conflict to the end of violent hostility, from political authoritarianism to liberal democracy and from socialist economic systems to market-driven or capitalist ones. The book shows that the trajectory towards peace, democracy and sustainable development is complex, full of dangers and in need of careful management.

Author : Brendan Howe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319589749

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National Security, Statecentricity, and Governance in East Asia by Brendan Howe Pdf

This book assesses the extent to which an emphasis on national security and prioritization of state interests has dominated governance policy-making in Northeast and Southeast Asia, at the expense of human security, human development, and human rights. The findings are that in many cases, there are embedded structural obstacles to achieving human-centered governance objectives in the region. These relate to the role of the military, historical authoritarian legacies, and new authoritarian trends. Contributors examine not only the most obvious instances of military domination of governance in the region (North Korea with its “Military First” philosophy, Thailand since the 2014 coup, and Myanmar with its long history of military rule), but also less well known examples of the influence of conflict legacies upon governance in Cambodia, Timor-Leste, and Laos, as well as the emergence of new reservoirs of power and resources for the forces of authoritarianism.

Author : Thomas M. Leonard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 0415976634

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Encyclopedia of the Developing World by Thomas M. Leonard Pdf

These crochet jackets from Coats & Clark let you change your wardrobe whenever you change your mood. Is it a day for quick decisions and getting things done? Toss on Confident, a button-down coat with a hem that cruises below the hip. If being Serene is more your thing, then mix a playful puff stitch with shades of green to create a jacket as peaceful as a forest retreat. Hunting for a way to buck the trends? The Bold jacket is camo-inspired, but it won t let you get lost in a crowd. Romantic is a cropped hoodie that hugs your shoulders and frames your face with soft bobbles. 4 jackets to crochet: Confident by Angel Rhett (sizes 8, 10, 12) ; Serene and Romantic, both by Ann E. Smith (sizes S, M, L, XL) ; and Bold by Kathleen Sams (sizes S, M, L) .

Author : Stefan Hauser,Martin Luginbühl
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273291

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Contrastive Media Analysis by Stefan Hauser,Martin Luginbühl Pdf

The study of media, texts and culture(s) and especially the analysis of interdependent relationships between them has become a major concern in various academic fields, such as intercultural communication, contrastive textology, comparative cultural studies, historical and intercultural pragmatics. Starting from the observation that in contrastive studies of mass media communication not only the theoretical status of “culture” often remains unclear but also the interdependent relation between the theoretical conceptualization of “culture” and the methodological approach of text analysis, this volume brings together linguistic mass media studies with intercultural, diachronic, intermedia and interlingual perspectives. Apart from offering new empirical insights into the field, this volume’s aim is to advance and to broaden the methodological and theoretical discussions involved. Comparing such diverse formats and genres like newspapers, TV news shows, TV commercials, radio phone-ins, obituaries, fanzines and film subtitles, the contributions of this volume illustrate the complexity of the growing field of contrastive media analysis.

Author : Kheang Un
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108457932

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Cambodia by Kheang Un Pdf

Drawing data from multiple sources, Un argues that following the 1993 United Nations intervention to promote democracy, the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) perpetuated a patronage state weak in administrative capacity but strong in coercive capacity. This enabled them to maintain the presence of electoral authoritarianism, but increased political awareness among the public, the rise in political activism among community-based organizations and a united opposition led to the emergence of a counter-movement. Sensing that this counter-movement might be unstoppable, the CPP has returned Cambodia to authoritarianism, a move made possible in part by China's pivot to Cambodia.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000043017775

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Cambodia, Post Elections and U.S. Policy Options by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs Pdf