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Political Economy of the Cambodian Transition

Book information

Year
2003
ISBN
9780700717378, 0700717374, 0203221753, 9780203221754, 9780203297117
LCC
HC442 .H844 2003
Open Library ID
OL22489919M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1589642 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
272\271
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Cambodia underwent a triple transition in the 1990s: from war to peace, from communism to electoral democracy, and from command economy to free market. This book addresses the political economy of these transitions, examining how the much publicised international intervention to bring peace and democracy to Cambodia was subverted by the poverty of the Cambodian economy and by the state's manipulation of the move to the free market. This analysis of the material basis of obstacles to Cambodia's democratisation suggests that the long-established theoretical link between economy and democracy stands, even in the face of new strategies of international democracy promotion.

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