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The examination of Western responses to human rights abuses in Cambodia from 1975 to 1980 raises certain fundamental questions regarding the role of human rights concerns and humanitarian principles in the foreign policy of Western states. This 6 year period, which included the massive human rights violations committed by the Democratic Kampuchea regime, the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, a feared famine and a refugee crisis, contained in it a number of dramatic shifts in the ways in which Western states addressed human rights and humanitarian issues in Indo-China.
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Hans Morgenthau, “A Political Theory of Foreign Aid”, American Political Science Review, vol. 56, no. 2 (June 1962), p. 301.
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Metzl, J.F. (1996). Conclusion. In: Western Responses to Human Rights Abuses in Cambodia, 1975–80. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24717-2_8
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