Brothers in Arms
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Brothers in Arms

Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979

Andrew Mertha

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Brothers in Arms

Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979

Andrew Mertha

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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.

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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780801470721
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Asian History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. List of Illustrations
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. A Note on Transliteration
  4. 1. China’s Relations with Democratic Kampuchea
  5. 2. The Khmer Rouge Bureaucracy
  6. 3. The Bureaucratic Structure of Chinese Overseas Assistance
  7. 4. DK Pushback and Military Institutional Integrity
  8. 5. The Failure of the Kampong Som Petroleum Refinery Project
  9. 6. China’s Development of Democratic Kampuchean Trade
  10. 7. What Is Past Is Present
  11. Notes
  12. Glossary
  13. Index
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APA 6 Citation

Mertha, A. (2014). Brothers in Arms (1st ed.). Cornell University Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/533987 (Original work published 2014)

Chicago Citation

Mertha, Andrew. (2014) 2014. Brothers in Arms. 1st ed. Cornell University Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/533987/brothers-in-arms-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Mertha, A. (2014) Brothers in Arms. 1st edn. Cornell University Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/533987 (Accessed: 1 July 2024).

MLA 7 Citation

Mertha, Andrew. Brothers in Arms. 1st ed. Cornell University Press, 2014. Web. 26 Sept. 2021.