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Modern Cambodia* provides an outstanding example of direct foreign involvement in the domestic affairs of a country in times of both war and peace. This chapter focuses on the role of outside parties in making and upholding peace in Cambodia after years of warfare in which the local people had suffered grievously. The centrepiece of external engagement was an international peace accord concluded in 1991, which called for the UN’s most ambitious venture yet into the internal politics of an independent state. A ravaged state with limited experience of political and economic freedom was to be remade in the image of a Western market democracy.
The name ‘Cambodia’, the established English equivalent of the native ‘Kampuchea’, will be used here except when mentioning proper titles such as the People’s Republic of Kampuchea. The term ‘Khmer’ is used interchangeably with ‘Kampuchean’and ‘Cambodian’, as in ‘Khmer people ’ and ‘Khmer government’.
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Geldenhuys, D. (1998). Cambodia. In: Foreign Political Engagement. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26758-3_9
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