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Dancing in Shadows - Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cambodia (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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Dancing in Shadows - Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cambodia (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
Series: Asian Voices
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This fascinating book recounts the remarkable tale of a career UN
official from Indonesia caught in the turmoil of international and
domestic politics swirling around Cambodia during the tumultuous
period after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Writing from his
experience first as a member of the UN transitional authority and
then as a personal envoy to the UN secretary-general, Benny Widyono
re-creates the fierce battles for power centering on King Norodom
Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and Prime Minister Hun Sen. A
simultaneous insider and outsider, he also untangles the competing
and conflicting agendas of the key international players,
especially the United States, China, and Vietnam. He argues that
great-power geopolitics throughout the Cold War and post-Cold War
eras triggered and sustained a tragedy of enormous proportions in
Cambodia for decades, ultimately leading to a flawed peace process.
Widyono tells the inside story of the massive UN operation in
Cambodia, the largest and most challenging in the organization's
history to that time and long considered a model for UN operations
elsewhere. He draws not only on his vantage point as part of the UN
bureaucracy, but also as a local UN official in the rural Cambodian
province of Siem Reap, the site of Angkor Wat. As a fellow
Southeast Asian with no geopolitical axe to grind, Widyono was able
to win the respect of Cambodians, including the once and future
king, Norodom Sihanouk, whose decline after fifty years as his
country's leading figure is vividly portrayed. Putting a human face
on international operations, this book will be invaluable reading
for anyone interested in Southeast Asia, the role of international
peacekeeping, and the international response to genocide.
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