Kampuchea Between China and Vietnam

Kampuchea Between China and Vietnam
Author: Pao-min Chang
Publisher: NUS Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1985
Genre: Cambodia
ISBN: 9789971690892

This book examines closely the origins, evolution, and prospect of the Sino-Vietnamese conflict over Kampuchea from both historical and geopolitical perspectives, with particular attention to the interplay of the conflicting perceptions and security needs of the three countries involved.

Brothers in Arms

Brothers in Arms
Author: Andrew Mertha
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801470730

When the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia in 1975, they inherited a war-ravaged and internationally isolated country. Pol Pot’s government espoused the rhetoric of self-reliance, but Democratic Kampuchea was utterly dependent on Chinese foreign aid and technical assistance to survive. Yet in a markedly asymmetrical relationship between a modernizing, nuclear power and a virtually premodern state, China was largely unable to use its power to influence Cambodian politics or policy. In Brothers in Arms, Andrew Mertha traces this surprising lack of influence to variations between the Chinese and Cambodian institutions that administered military aid, technology transfer, and international trade. Today, China’s extensive engagement with the developing world suggests an inexorably rising China in the process of securing a degree of economic and political dominance that was unthinkable even a decade ago. Yet, China’s experience with its first-ever client state suggests that the effectiveness of Chinese foreign aid, and influence that comes with it, is only as good as the institutions that manage the relationship. By focusing on the links between China and Democratic Kampuchea, Mertha peers into the “black box” of Chinese foreign aid to illustrate how domestic institutional fragmentation limits Beijing’s ability to influence the countries that accept its assistance.

Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia

Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia
Author: Stephen J. Morris
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780804730495

Morris examines the, "first and only extended war between two communist regimes."

The Chinese in Cambodia

The Chinese in Cambodia
Author: William E. Willmott
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0774844418

Although the Chinese form only a small fraction of the population of Southeast Asia, they are a minority of crucial importance to the future of many countries, for they control much of the commercial economy of the region. Studies have been published on the Chinese in Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. This book is the first study of the Chinese in Cambodia. The author is an anthropologist, but the book is not written from that perspective alone; it examines the position of the Chinese in Cambodian society from the historical, the economic, the legal, and the demographic points of view as well.

The Sino-Vietnamese Conflict

The Sino-Vietnamese Conflict
Author: Eugene K. Lawson
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1984
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Peking and Hanoi differed over 5 significant issues from the early 1960s up until the North Vietamesse conques of the South in 1975. The author explores their conflicting desires for a dominant position in Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand.

Vietnam's Strategic Thinking during the Third Indochina War

Vietnam's Strategic Thinking during the Third Indochina War
Author: Kosal Path
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 029932270X

When costly efforts to cement a strategic partnership with the Soviet Union failed, the combined political pressure of economic crisis at home and imminent external threats posed by a Sino-Cambodian alliance compelled Hanoi to reverse course. Moving away from the Marxist-Leninist ideology that had prevailed during the last decade of the Cold War era, the Vietnamese government implemented broad doi moi ("renovation") reforms intended to create a peaceful regional environment for the country's integration into the global economy. In contrast to earlier studies, Path traces the moving target of these changing policy priorities, providing a vital addition to existing scholarship on asymmetric wartime decision-making and alliance formation among small states. The result uncovers how this critical period had lasting implications for the ways Vietnam continues to conduct itself on the global stage.

How China Wins

How China Wins
Author: Christopher M. Gin
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781940804309

Peacekeeping in International Politics

Peacekeeping in International Politics
Author: Alan James
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349210269

The book focuses on peacekeeping as a device for maintaining international stability, and for remedying situations in which states are in conflict with each other. Alan James examines around fifty cases, explaining the background to each one, and analysing its political significance. There is also a detailed examination of the concept of peacemaking, and a look into its increasing importance in international affairs, emphasised by the fact that the United Nations won the Nobel Peace Prize for its peacekeeping activities.

China's War with Vietnam, 1979

China's War with Vietnam, 1979
Author: King C. Chen
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN:

Why did the People's Republic of China and Vietnam, two "comrades and brothers," engage in such a tragic war?