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Political Transition in Cambodia 1991-99: Power, Elitism and Democracy

Political Transition in Cambodia 1991-99: Power, Elitism and Democracy

Hardcover

Series: Power, Elitism and Democracy

General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0700712836
ISBN13: 9780700712830
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 2000
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book illustrates the limits to the 1990s UNTAC peacekeeping intervention in Cambodia and raises a critical challenge to the assumptions underpinning key tenets of the 'Liberal Project' as a mechanism for resolving complex, severe struggles for elite political power in developing countries.

The book highlights the limitations of externally imposed power-sharing. In the case of Cambodia, the imagined effect was a coalition that would share power democratically. However, this approach was appropriate only for resolving the superpower conflict that had created Cambodia's war. Rather than bringing long-term peace to Cambodia, Roberts argues, it created the temporary illusion of a democratic system that in fact recreated the military conflict and housed it in a superficial coalition.

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