Cambodia - A Country Study

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Index Page

  • COUNTRY PROFILE
  • GEOGRAPHY
  • SOCIETY
  • ECONOMY
  • TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
  • GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
  • NATIONAL SECURITY
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter 1. Historical Setting
  • PREHISTORY AND EARLY KINGDOMS
  • Early Indianized Kingdom of Funan
  • The Successor State of Chenla
  • THE ANGKORIAN PERIOD
  • CAMBODIA'S STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL, 1432-1887
  • Domination by Thailand and by Vietnam
  • The French Protectorate
  • THE FRENCH COLONIAL PERIOD, 1887-1953
  • The Colonial Economy
  • The Emergence of Nationalism
  • The Struggle for Independence
  • CAMBODIA UNDER SIHANOUK, 1954-70
  • The Geneva Conference
  • Domestic Developments
  • Nonaligned Foreign Policy
  • The Cambodian Left: The Early Phases
  • The Paris Student Group
  • The KPRP Second Congress
  • INTO THE MAELSTROM: INSURRECTION AND WAR, 1967-75
  • The March 1970 Coup d'Etat
  • The Widening War
  • Early Khmer Rouge Atrocities
  • The Fall of Phnom Penh
  • DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA, 1975-78
  • Revolutionary Terror
  • Society under the Angkar
  • Religious and Minority Communities
  • Education and Health
  • The Economy
  • Politics under the Khmer Rouge
  • Establishing Democratic Kampuchea
  • An Elusive Party
  • Intraparty Conflict
  • The Purge
  • The Fall of Democratic Kampuchea
  • Chapter 2. The Society and Its Environment
  • ENVIRONMENT
  • Topography
  • Climate
  • Drainage
  • Regional Divisions
  • POPULATION
  • Dynamics
  • Migration and Refugees
  • SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION
  • The Khmer
  • Housing
  • Diet
  • Dress
  • Families
  • Social Stratification and Social Mobility
  • Other Ethnic Groups
  • The Khmer Loeu
  • The Chinese
  • The Vietnamese
  • Other Groups
  • LANGUAGES
  • Austronesian
  • RELIGION
  • Origins of Buddhism on the Indian Subcontinent
  • Cambodian Adaptations
  • Role of Buddhism in Cambodian Life
  • Chinese Religion
  • Islam
  • Other Religions
  • EDUCATION
  • Public School System
  • Buddhist Education
  • Private Education
  • HEALTH AND WELFARE
  • Public Health
  • Welfare Programs
  • Chapter 3. The Economy
  • ECONOMIC SETTING
  • Natural Resources
  • Hydroelectric Power
  • Petroleum
  • Labor Force
  • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS AFTER INDEPENDENCE
  • Sihanouk's Peacetime Economy, 1953-70
  • The Wartime Economy, 1970-75
  • The Economy under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79
  • ECONOMIC ROLE OF THE KAMPUCHEAN PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY PARTY
  • New Economic Policy and System
  • First Plan, 1986-90
  • AGRICULTURE
  • Collectivization and Solidarity Groups
  • Rice Production and Cultivation
  • Other Food and Commercial Crops
  • Livestock
  • Fisheries
  • INDUSTRY
  • Major Manufacturing Industries
  • Handicrafts
  • DOMESTIC COMMERCE
  • FOREIGN TRADE AND AID
  • Composition of Trade
  • Major Trading Partners
  • Vietnam
  • Soviet Union
  • East Germany
  • Poland
  • Illicit Trade with Thailand and with Singapore
  • Foreign Economic and Technical Assistance
  • Soviet Aid
  • Vietnamese Aid
  • International and Western Aid
  • FINANCE
  • Banking
  • Taxes
  • TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
  • Roads and Highways
  • Railroads
  • Ports
  • Airports
  • Telecommunications
  • Chapter 4. Government and Politics
  • MAJOR POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS, 1977-81
  • Cambodia in Turmoil
  • COALITION GOVERNMENT OF DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA
  • Origins of the Coalition
  • Coalition Structure
  • Democratic Kampuchea
  • The Khmer People's National Liberation Front
  • National United Front for an Independent, Peaceful, Neutral, and Cooperative Cambodia
  • THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KAMPUCHEA
  • The Constitution
  • Government Structure
  • The Council of State
  • The Council of Ministers
  • The Judiciary
  • Local People's Revolutionary Committees
  • THE MEDIA
  • THE KAMPUCHEAN, (OR KHMER) PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY PARTY
  • THE KAMPUCHEAN (OR KHMER) UNITED FRONT FOR NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION AND DEFENSE
  • FOREIGN AFFAIRS
  • The Coalition's Strategy
  • Phnom Penh and Its Allies
  • The Search for Peace
  • From "Proximity Talks" to a "Cocktail Party"
  • The Sihanouk-Hun Sen Meeting
  • Chapter 5. National Security
  • HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
  • The Time of Greatness, A.D. 802-1431
  • Period of Decline, 1431-1863
  • The French Protectorate, 1863-1954
  • The Japanese Occupation, 1941-45
  • The First Indochina War, 1945-54
  • The Second Indochina War, 1954-75
  • MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS UNDER THE KHMER ROUGE
  • Khmer-Vietnamese Border Tensions
  • Vietnamese Invasion of Cambodia
  • MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS IN POSTWAR CAMBODIA
  • Tenuous Security
  • Coalition Government Resistance Forces
  • National Army of Democratic Kampuchea
  • Khmer People's National Liberation Armed Forces
  • Armé
  • Kampuchean, or Khmer, People's Revolutionary Armed Forces
  • Threats and Capabilities
  • Organization and Control
  • Mission and Doctrine
  • Composition and Deployment
  • Conditions of Service
  • Foreign Troops and Advisers
  • LAW ENFORCEMENT AND COUNTERSUBVERSION
  • Protection under the Law
  • Penal System

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