Cambodia: A Travel Survival Kit serves as a comprehensive guide for travelers seeking practical information and cultural insight about Cambodia. The book provides essential details on transportation, accommodation, local customs, and key destinations, helping visitors navigate the country safely and efficiently. It also includes historical background, cultural notes, and advice on interacting w…
Cambodia Year Zero documents the dramatic and devastating transformation of Cambodia following the rise of the Khmer Rouge in 1975. The book provides a detailed account of the regime’s radical policies, including forced evacuations, abolition of urban life, collectivization of agriculture, and the systematic dismantling of social, cultural, and political structures. Through eyewitness testimo…
Cambodia in the Southeast Asian War provides an in-depth analysis of Cambodia’s political, military, and social landscape during the period of conflict surrounding the Vietnam War. The book examines Cambodia’s strategic position in Indochina, the policies of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, and the pressures placed on the country by both communist and anti-communist forces. Through detailed histori…
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia examines the political decisions and covert military strategies carried out by the Nixon administration and Henry Kissinger during the Vietnam War, with a focus on their impact on Cambodia. The book reveals how secret bombings, military interventions, and diplomatic maneuvers contributed to the destabilization of Cambodia, ultimately pa…
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia examines the political decisions and covert military strategies carried out by the Nixon administration and Henry Kissinger during the Vietnam War, with a focus on their impact on Cambodia. The book reveals how secret bombings, military interventions, and diplomatic maneuvers contributed to the destabilization of Cambodia, ultimately pa…
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The recent border clashes between China and India have dramatized the strategic location of the Himalayan kingdoms of Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan: their position on the fringe of the Communist empire, between India and Chinese-occupied Tibet make them important geostrategically to both the East and West. This is the irst book to evaluate the complex politico-geographical aspects of these three Hi…
Since the Allied invasion of Afghanistan in 2002, the Bush administration has celebrated the imminent demise of the Taliban, with claims of a moral and psychological defeat" playing a prominent role in the presidential elections of 2004. Some commentators suggested that "reconstruction and development" had won over the Afghan population, despite widespread criticism of the meager distribution o…
Presents a carefully researched analysis of the Democratic Kampuchea regime of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge (1975-79) and the early years of the People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979-89). This book presents a fresh interpretation based on the earliest primary sources - interviews with the Khmer people themselves.
This book is a study of regime change in an underdeveloped country with a weak state and strong autonomous social organizations. Regime change is in many countries a traumatic and disruptive experience, but few countries have paid as high a cost to retain traditionally accepted relationships of authority as has Afghanistan since the communist coup