Intervention and Change in Cambodia

Towards Democracy

Bibliographic Data

ID19902285
AuthorsSorpong Peou (corresponding author)
Year2000
Publication date2000-03-21
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueIntervention and Change in Cambodia (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherISEAS Publishing (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1355/9789812305923
OpenAlexW4235057460
Open LibraryOL38384249M
ISBN9789812305923
LanguageEN
Citations received25

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.

Intervention (counseling) · Political science · Psychiatry · Cambodian History and Society · Psychology · Cambodia · Democracy · foreign relations · History · politics and government

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