Further Reading - Hun Sen's Cambodia - page 298

1980s. See also Michael Vickery, Kampuchea: Politics, Economics and Society (London,
1986), and Margaret Slocomb, The People's Republic of Kampuchea, 1979-1989: The
Revolution after Pol Pot (Chiang Mai, 2003), a more sympathetic treatment of the period
also based on archival sources.
Another good source on the 1980s is Jacques Bekaert's Cambodian Diary: Tales of
a Divided Nation, 1983-1986 (Bangkok, 1997) and Cambodian Diary: A Long Road to
Peace, 1987-1993 (Bangkok, 1998). These two volumes collect the weekly columns pub-
lished by the author in the Bangkok Post , and include a good deal of anecdote and analys-
is, both from the border and from Phnom Penh. Serge Thion's Watching Cambodia: Ten
Paths to Enter the Cambodian Tangle (Bangkok, 1993) is likewise a worthwhile collec-
tion of essays on Cambodian politics, including Thion's account of a journey to a Khmer
Rouge “liberated zone” in 1972 and a scathing description of Cambodia's collision with
the new world hopes of the UNTAC years.
For a detailed treatment of the geopolitical backdrop of the 1980s, see Nayan Chanda,
Brother Enemy: The War after the War (New York, 1986); and William Shawcross,
The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust and the Modern Conscience (New York,
1984), which focuses on the international relief effort of the early 1980s. Another detailed
volume is Grant Evans and Kelvin Rowley, Red Brotherhood at War: Vietnam, Cambod-
ia and Laos since 1975 (New York, 1990). Eva Mysliwiec's Punishing the Poor: The In-
ternational Isolation of Kampuchea (Oxford, 1988) attacks the international indifference
to Cambodia's suffering under the moral contortions of Cold War realpolitik.
For the UNTAC and post-UNTAC years, see MacAlister Brown and Joseph J. Zasloff,
Cambodia Confounds the Peacemakers, 1979-1998 (Ithaca, 1998); and David W.
Roberts, Political Transition in Cambodia 1991-99: Power, Elitism, and Democracy
(New York, 2001). William Shawcross has a perceptive account of the UNTAC years in
his Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers and Warlords in a World of Endless Conflict
(London, 2001), which draws comparisons with the other UN peacekeeping missions of
the 1990s.
In Dancing in Shadows: Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cam-
bodia (Lanham, 2008), former UN official Benny Widyono offers a colorful insider ac-
count of Cambodian politics throughout the 1990s. Another illuminating volume on the
UNTAC years is Steve Heder and Judy Ledgerwood, eds, Propaganda, Politics and Vi-
olence in Cambodia: Democratic Transition under United Nations Peace-Keeping (Ar-
monk, 1996), a series of essays on the country's sudden encounter with the “internation-
al community.” For discussions of Cambodian culture in the post-Khmer Rouge years,
see May M. Ebihara, Carol A. Mortland, and Judy Ledgerwood, eds, Cambodian Culture
since 1975: Homeland and Exile (Ithaca, 1994).