CAMBODIA - A Country Study

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• CAMBODIA
• Foreword
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• PREFACE
• COUNTRY PROFILE
  • COUNTRY
  • 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
    • Distribution
    • Migration and Refugees
  • SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION
    • The Khmer
      • Household and Family Structure
      • Housing
      • Diet
      • Dress
      • Families
      • Social Stratification and Social Mobility
    • Other Ethnic Groups
      • The Cham
      • The Khmer Loeu
      • The Chinese
      • The Vietnamese
      • Other Groups
  • LANGUAGES
    • Austroasiatic-Mon-Khmer
    • Austronesian
  • RELIGION
    • Buddhism
      • 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
      • Metals and Minerals
      • Hydroelectric Power
      • Petroleum
      • Forestry
    • 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
      • Czechoslovakia
      • Poland
    • Illicit Trade with Thailand and with Singapore
    • Foreign Economic and Technical Assistance
      • Soviet Aid
      • Vietnamese Aid
      • International and Western Aid
  • FINANCE
    • Banking
    • Currency
    • Taxes
  • TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
    • Roads and Highways
    • Railroads
    • Water Transportation
    • Ports
    • Airports
    • Telecommunications
• Chapter 4. Government and Politics
  • MAJOR POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS, 1977-81
    • Background
    • 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 National Assembly
      • 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 Rouge Armed Forces
    • 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
    • Armée Nationale Sihanoukiste
    • 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
    • People's Security Service
    • Protection under the Law
    • Penal System
• Appendices
  • Appendix A. Tables
  • Appendix B. Major Political and Military Organizations
• Bibliography
• Glossary