POL215Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pathet Lao, Laos, Economic Restructuring
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Funcipec - nominally royalist formation by king norodom. Forced to play a subordinate role to the cpp. Supported by rural dwellers and much of the educated urban elites. Ccp old stable political party (14 years considered as unbeatable) by. A tightly organized party with formidable grassroots networks and a primary appeal to the rural masses. Sam rainsy party (srp) populist opposition . Significant opposition and has faced sustained harassment from both. Untac united nations transitional authority for cambodia. Election in cambodia is getting more and more lifeless. Several changes in government, and to some extent, changes of regime. All regimes are variants of authoritarian rule. Lon nol and the new khmer republic. International positioning and support for the khmer rouge: ironies of the cold war. 1982: weak coalition funcinpec, khmer people"s national liberation. The puppet regime of heng samrin and hun sen. Elections and the new government: the funcinpec and cambodian.