Full Description
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.
Contents
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?
