Beyond Democracy in Cambodia: Political Reconstruction in a Post-Conflict Society Modern History selected as the National Artist

selected as the National Artist in Literature in 1992

10 November 2009)

a stalemate that still persists today

By Michael Sullivan

and social factors to create a fantastic

Beyond Democracy in Cambodia: Political Reconstruction in a Post-Conflict Society Modern History selected as the National ArtistEdited by Joakim jendal and Mona Lilja September 2009, 320 pp, 15x23 cm For more than three decades Cambodia lived with civil war and genocide. After the peace agreement, major reconstruction efforts and UN supervised elections in the 1990s, it was hoped that the ravages of the past could be repaired. Instead, one political crisis after another has ensued. And to the extent that some political stability has emerged, seemingly this has been won at the