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Brothers in Arms
2014,2017
Overview
When the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia in 1975, they
inherited a war-ravaged and internationally isolated country. Pol
Pot's government espoused the rhetoric of self-reliance, but
Democratic Kampuchea was utterly dependent on Chinese foreign aid
and technical assistance to survive. Yet in a markedly asymmetrical
relationship between a modernizing, nuclear power and a virtually
premodern state, China was largely unable to use its power to
influence Cambodian politics or policy. In Brothers in Arms, Andrew
Mertha traces this surprising lack of influence to variations
between the Chinese and Cambodian institutions that administered
military aid, technology transfer, and international trade.
Today, China's extensive engagement with the developing world
suggests an inexorably rising China in the process of securing a
degree of economic and political dominance that was unthinkable
even a decade ago. Yet, China's experience with its first-ever
client state suggests that the effectiveness of Chinese foreign
aid, and influence that comes with it, is only as good as the
institutions that manage the relationship. By focusing on the links
between China and Democratic Kampuchea, Mertha peers into the
\"black box\" of Chinese foreign aid to illustrate how domestic
institutional fragmentation limits Beijing's ability to influence
the countries that accept its assistance.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780801452659, 0801452651
