PITT POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR PUBLISHES BOOK ON CAMBODIA
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 13 -- Joseph J. Zasloff, University of Pittsburgh political science professor, and his colleague MacAlister Brown have written a book titled "Cambodia Confounds the Peacemakers," published by Cornell University Press.
The book offers a detailed account of the peacemaking efforts in Cambodia since the end of the Khmer Rouge in 1979, through the negotiation and planning that produced the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) and a free and fair election in 1993.
The authors provide an analysis of Cambodia's political development from the 1979 civil war to Hun Sen's coup d'état in 1997, and the July 1998 election in which Hun Sen's ruling party won. As an invited observer of the election, Zasloff relays an account of the election process in the book's epilogue.
An expert on comparative politics and the political development of Southeast Asia, Zasloff has co-authored and edited other books including "Laos -- Beyond the Revolution," "Postwar Indochina: Old Enemies and New Allies," "Apprentice Revolutionaries: The Communist Movement in Laos, 1930-1985," "Communist Indochina and U.S. Foreign Policy: Postwar Realities," and "Communism in Indochina: New Perspectives."
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