State Building, Patronage and the Anti-Pluralist Politics of Stability in Cambodia

Abstract

With a perspective of over 15 years since the initial deployment of UN troops and civilian administrators to end a protracted civil war and set Cambodia on a path of development and democracy, the Southeast Asian country provides a useful case study for illuminating both the changing character of international intervention since the early 1990s and the nature of emergent state forms under conditions of heightened transnationalisation.