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Dependent Communities investigates the political situations in contemporary Cambodia and East Timor, where powerful international donors intervened following deadly civil conflicts. This comparative analysis critiques international policies that focus on rebuilding state institutions to accommodate the global market. In addition, it explores the dilemmas of politicians in Cambodia and East Timor who struggle to satisfy both wealthy foreign benefactors and constituents at home-groups whose interests frequently conflict. Hughes argues that the policies of Western aid organizations tend to stifle active political engagement by the citizens of countries that have been torn apart by war. The neoliberal ideology promulgated by United Nations administrations and other international NGOs advocates state sovereignty, but in fact "sovereignty" is too flimsy a foundation for effective modern democratic politics. The result is an oppressive peace that tends to rob survivors and former resistance fighters of their agency and aspirations for genuine postwar independence. In her study of these two cases, Hughes demonstrates that the clientelist strategies of Hun Sen, Cambodia's postwar leader, have created a shadow network of elites and their followers that has been comparatively effective in serving the country's villages, even though so often coercive and corrupt. East Timor's postwar leaders, on the other hand, have alienated voters by attempting to follow the guidelines of the donors closely and ignoring the immediate needs and voices of the people. Dependent Communities offers a searing analysis of contemporary international aid strategies based on the author's years of fieldwork in Cambodia and East Timor.
Economic assistance --- Economic aid --- Foreign aid program --- Foreign assistance --- Grants-in-aid, International --- International economic assistance --- International grants-in-aid --- Economic policy --- International economic relations --- Conditionality (International relations) --- Timor-Leste --- Cambodia --- Cambodge --- Khmer Republic --- Cam Bot --- Cambotja --- République khmère --- Kambodscha --- Kamboja --- Kambodža --- Tchin-la --- Chien-pʻu-chai --- Democratic Kampuchea --- Kambujā --- Democratic Cambodia --- Camboja --- Preah Reach Ana Chak Kampuchea --- Kâmpŭchéa Prâchéathĭpâteyy --- Kampuchea démocratique --- République du Cambodge --- Campuchia --- Kampuchea (Coalition Government, 1983- ) --- Kampuchea --- Kampuchii︠a︡ --- Kamphūchā --- Kingdom of Cambodia --- Preăhréachéanachâkr Kâmpŭchéa --- Cambogia --- Roat Kampuchea --- State of Cambodia --- Cambodja --- Royal Government of Cambodia --- French Indochina --- Politics and government --- Braḥrājāṇacakr Kambujā --- Rājraṭṭhabhipāl Kambujā
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Cambodia underwent a triple transition in the 1990s: from war to peace, from communism to electoral democracy, and from command economy to free market. This book addresses the political economy of these transitions, examining how the much publicised international intervention to bring peace and democracy to Cambodia was subverted by the poverty of the Cambodian economy and by the state's manipulation of the move to the free market. This analysis of the material basis of obstacles to Cambodia's democratisation suggests that the long-established theoretical link between economy and democracy sta
Cambodia --- Economic conditions. --- Politics and government
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Achieving better governance has been a central problem for development. When public services are not delivered as intended, reform action becomes necessary and that involves deliberate activities to change laws, structures, and processes to improve public sector performance and benefit public service users. The key challenge is that changes in the design of the institution or its procedures do not necessarily translate into immediate changes in the behavior of relevant actors. A central problem of public sector reform is ensuring that changes in laws and policies also prompts changes in the way that people work, so that service delivery improves. There is no one-size-fits-all approach ensuring that change happens the desirable way; however, experiences from the field suggest that a useful combination of political economy analysis with change management tools can help to maximize positive impacts. Different contexts will require different approaches to change management, and therefore political economy analysis can be used productively to design a targeted change management strategy that builds on existing strengths and opportunities. Greater integration of political economy analysis into change management assessments has been helpful in deepening understanding of attitudes to change within these particular contexts. This has allowed more effective leveraging of the opportunities for reform through the more systematic tailoring of change management strategies to different sets of issues emerging among particular groups of actors. Cambodia and Indonesia, the case studies presented in the paper, help to illustrate this.
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This volume examines different ideologies and related political coalitions forming the bases of movements for accountability reform in Southeast Asia.
Government accountability --- Democracy --- Obligation de rendre compte (Administration publique) --- Démocratie --- Southeast Asia / Politics and government --- Southeast Asia --- Asie du Sud-Est --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Democracy. --- Politics and government. --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Australian
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Economic development --- Poor --- Distributive justice --- Distribution (Economic theory) --- Justice --- Social justice --- Wealth --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Social aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Economic conditions --- Cambodia --- Cambodge --- Khmer Republic --- Cam Bot --- Cambotja --- République khmère --- Kambodscha --- Kamboja --- Kambodža --- Tchin-la --- Chien-pʻu-chai --- Democratic Kampuchea --- Kambujā --- Democratic Cambodia --- Camboja --- Preah Reach Ana Chak Kampuchea --- Kâmpŭchéa Prâchéathĭpâteyy --- Kampuchea démocratique --- République du Cambodge --- Campuchia --- Kampuchea (Coalition Government, 1983- ) --- Kampuchea --- Kampuchii︠a︡ --- Kamphūchā --- Kingdom of Cambodia --- Preăhréachéanachâkr Kâmpŭchéa --- Cambogia --- Roat Kampuchea --- State of Cambodia --- Cambodja --- Royal Government of Cambodia --- French Indochina --- Economic policy. --- Politics and government --- E-books --- Braḥrājāṇacakr Kambujā --- Rājraṭṭhabhipāl Kambujā
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International peace- and state-building interventions have become ubiquitous in international politics since the 1990s, aiming to tackle the security problems stemming from the instability afflicting many developing states. Their frequent failures have prompted a shift towards analysing how the interaction between interveners and recipients shapes outcomes. This book critically assesses the rapidly growing literature in international relations and development studies on international intervention and local politics. It advances an innovative approach, placing the politics of scale at the core of the conflicts and compromises shaping the outcomes of international intervention. Different scales - local, national, international - privilege different interests, unevenly allocating power, resources and political opportunity structures. Interveners and recipients thus pursue scalar strategies and socio-political alliances that reinforce their power and marginalise rivals. This approach is harnessed towards examining three prominent case studies of international intervention - Aceh, Cambodia and Solomon Islands - with a focus on public administration reform.
International relations. --- Nation-building. --- Political stability. --- Destabilization (Political science) --- Political instability --- Stability, Political --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Legitimacy of governments --- Stabilization and reconstruction (International relations) --- State-building --- Political development --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics
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Explores how various peacebuilding theories engage and interact with lived experiences.
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