Intervention and Change in Cambodia : : Towards Democracy? / / Sorpong Peou.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Peou, Sorpong,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (621 p.)

This book contributes to the ongoing debate on the complex transition in weak states from war to peace and from authoritarianism to liberal democracy. The analysis assesses the impact of foreign intervention on Cambodia's state and societal structures during the period 1954-98. Three forms of intervention are discussed: competitive, cooperative, and co-optative. None of them contributed to the emergence of what is called a hurting balance of power -- a necessary, if not sufficient, condition for democratic compromise and maturation; none has the capacity to allow democratization to emerge and mature in the immediate term. While competitive intervention perpetuated hegemonic instability, cooperative and co-optative intervention seemed to lead the country in the direction of illiberal democracy, in which greater hegemonic stability exists and may persist for some time.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of maps and plates -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms & abbreviations -- Introduction A Reflection on Major Theories of Democracy -- Part one Democratic seed on thorny soil 1955-90 -- Chapter 1. Anti-Democratic Political Systems -- Chapter 2. Unstable Hegemonic Power Structures -- Chapter 3. Cold War "Competitive" Intervention -- Part two Unconsolidated democratic transition 1991-95 -- Chapter 4. Towards an Unconsolidated Democratic Regime -- Chapter 5. Hurting Balance of Power Unachieved -- Chapter 6. Co-optative Intervention in Cambodia -- Part three Towards illiberal democracy 1996-future -- Chapter 7. Democracy on Trial, 1996-98 -- Chapter 8. Hun Sen's Rise to Greater Hegemonic Status, 1996-98 -- Chapter 9. The New "Co-optative Intervention", 1 996-98 -- Conclusion Towards an Anti-Hegemonic Theory of Democratization -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index -- THE AUTHOR