Cambodia Votes

Sullivan, M. K.; Strangio, Sebastian

doi:10.1355/cs39-1j

2016

DOI: 10.1355/cs39-1j

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Cambodia Votes

M. K. Sullivan¹,

Sebastian Strangio²

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Local rivalries, foreign entanglements: the role of domestic politics in Cambodia's Chinese embrace

Strangio,

Li,

2024

International Journal of Asian Studies

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No country in Southeast Asia is as close to China as Cambodia is at present. Under Hun Sen's leadership, Cambodia has actively participated in the Belt and Road Initiative and repeatedly blocked ASEAN's statements on the South China Sea (SCS). How can we better understand Cambodia's embrace of China? We argue that Hun Sen chose to embrace China due to the convergence of challenges posed by Cambodia's domestic opposition forces and international democratic pressures. The more severe the domestic political challenges, the more Hun Sen and his ruling party need China's support. Since Hun Sen remains the most powerful figure in Cambodia despite his recent resignation as prime minister, whether Cambodia's dependence on China can be altered depends on the ability of the West to modify its approach and attitude toward Hun Sen, his successor, and their domestic opponents. Nevertheless, regardless of how the future unfolds, domestic politics is likely to play an important role in Cambodia's foreign alignments in the foreseeable future.

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Local rivalries, foreign entanglements: the role of domestic politics in Cambodia's Chinese embrace

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Li,

2024

International Journal of Asian Studies

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After the Grab? Land Control and Regime Survival in Cambodia since 2012

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Milne

2020

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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The global land grab has played out vividly in Cambodia, giving rise to rural upheaval and new political dynamics. This article explores how the Cambodian government has dealt with the social and political consequences of this land grabbing, with the aim of exploring state formation in the context of socio-environmental disruption and dispossession. When a moratorium was declared in 2012, the ruling Cambodian People's Party faced one of its strongest political challenges, fuelled in part by land and resource conflicts. In this article, the focus is on the responses to this challenge, noting the recursive relationship between land administration and state formation. The analysis shows three tactics of land control used by the regime to ensure its survival after the grab: reform, repression and re-territorialisation. These tactics operate in parallel and sometimes contradictory ways, being highly performative in nature. We reveal a regime that uses political theatre to construct legitimacy and authority on the one hand, while deploying coercion and violence on the other. These observations complement typical diagnoses of Cambodia's politics as neo-patrimonial, highlighting the performative and symbolic nature of government actions, particularly in the land sector.

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Adaptive Authoritarian Resilience: Cambodian Strongman’s Quest for Legitimacy

Ngoun

2020

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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Local rivalries, foreign entanglements: the role of domestic politics in Cambodia's Chinese embrace

Local rivalries, foreign entanglements: the role of domestic politics in Cambodia's Chinese embrace

After the Grab? Land Control and Regime Survival in Cambodia since 2012

Adaptive Authoritarian Resilience: Cambodian Strongman’s Quest for Legitimacy

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