Ebook: Hun Sen's Cambodia
Author: Hun Sen, Hun Sen, Strangio Sebastian
- Tags: 20e siècle (2e moitié)-21e siècle (début), Chefs de gouvernement--Cambodge, Conditions sociales, Conditions sociales--Cambodge--1993-..., Hommes politiques--Cambodge, Politics and government, Politique et gouvernement, Politique et gouvernement--Cambodge--1993-..., Social conditions, Biography, History, Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1979-1993, Cambodia -- History -- 1979-1993, Cambodia -- Social conditions -- 21st century, Cambodia, Hun Sen -- (1952-....), Chefs de gouvernement -- Cambodge, Hommes polit
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- City: Cambodge;Cambodia
- Language: English
- epub
To many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the terror it inflicted in its attempt to create a communist utopia in the 1970s. Sebastian Strangio, a journalist based in the capital city of Phnom Penh, now offers an eye-opening appraisal of modern-day Cambodia in the years following its emergence from bitter conflict and bloody upheaval.
In the early 1990s, Cambodia became the focus of the UN's first great post–Cold War nation-building project, with billions in international aid rolling in to support the fledgling democracy. But since the UN-supervised elections in 1993, the nation has slipped steadily backward into neo-authoritarian rule under Prime Minister Hun Sen. Behind a mirage of democracy, ordinary people have few rights and corruption infuses virtually every facet of everyday life. In this lively and compelling study, the first of its kind, Strangio explores...