Cambodia's Second Kingdom
Cambodia's Second Kingdom

Author: Astrid Noren-Nilsson

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1501725947

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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

Cambodia
Cambodia

Author: Tom Vater

Publisher:

Published: 2015-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781495105883

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Cambodia: a Journey through the Land of the Khmer throws the doors to this small Southeast Asian kingdom wide open and invites both visitors and armchair travelers on a trip through the history and landscape of Cambodia while introducing the country s people, their unique and resilient culture and colorful festivals.

The Return of the Kingdom of Cambodia towards the Age of Globalization
The Return of the Kingdom of Cambodia towards the Age of Globalization

Author: Samreth Mammoun

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2011-10-21

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1465304932

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This book goes to press as Cambodia moves towards the age of globalization. This is the first publication that presents about contemporary Cambodia in the age of globalization. Unlike most of the existing publications on Cambodia, this book focuses on contemporary Cambodia from various fields from local to global challenges. To understand Cambodia, one needs to know it from different angle, picture and perspective. The book deals with historical evolution, development strategies, national and international affair, trade and most recent challenges of Cambodia in the age of globalization. These approaches make this book an interesting and useful for reader, especially scholar who interested in Asian, Southeast Asian and Cambodian studies.

Cambodia's Curse
Cambodia's Curse

Author: Joel Brinkley

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2011-04-12

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1610390016

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge. A generation after genocide, Cambodia seemed on the surface to have overcome its history -- the streets of Phnom Penh were paved; skyscrapers dotted the skyline. But under this façe lies a country still haunted by its years of terror. Although the international community tried to rebuild Cambodia and introduce democracy in the 1990s, in the country remained in the grip of a venal government. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Joel Brinkley learned that almost a half of Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge era suffered from P.T.S.D. -- and had passed their trauma 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.

A Short History of Cambodia
A Short History of Cambodia

Author: John Tully

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1741158575

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In this concise and compelling history, Cambodia's past is described in vivid detail, from the richness of the Angkorean empire through the dark ages of the 18th and early-19th centuries, French colonialism, independence, the Vietnamese conflict, the Pol Pot regime, and its current incarnation as a troubled democracy. With energetic writing and passion for the subject, John Tully covers the full sweep of Cambodian history, explaining why this land of contrasts remains an interesting enigma to the international community. Detailing the depressing record of war, famine, and invasion that ha.