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Chapter 11 - Cambodia

More than ‘a signals show’

from Part 3 - Ongoing relationships

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2021

Craig Stockings
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Peter Dennis
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales, Sydney
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Cambodia is a small country in South-East Asia between Thailand, Vietnam and Laos.1 It won independence from France in 1954 and was governed by a popular autocratic monarch, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, until his overthrow in a military coup, in 1970. General Lon Nol established the Khmer Republic and took Cambodia into the Vietnam War as an ally of the United States. Sihanouk, from exile in Beijing, placed his support behind an obscure peasant revolutionary movement in the countryside, his popularity drawing many Cambodians to the Khmer Rouge. They also rebelled against Lon Nol’s government in Phnom Penh because of the extensive bombing by the United States of rural areas across Cambodia.

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An Army of Influence
Eighty Years of Regional Engagement
, pp. 245 - 266
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Cambodia
  • Edited by Craig Stockings, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Peter Dennis, University of New South Wales, Sydney
  • Book: An Army of Influence
  • Online publication: 16 November 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009086929.013
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  • Cambodia
  • Edited by Craig Stockings, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Peter Dennis, University of New South Wales, Sydney
  • Book: An Army of Influence
  • Online publication: 16 November 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009086929.013
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  • Cambodia
  • Edited by Craig Stockings, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Peter Dennis, University of New South Wales, Sydney
  • Book: An Army of Influence
  • Online publication: 16 November 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009086929.013
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