This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of established and emerging scholars from
the disciplines of history political science and communication studies to provide a
historical reappraisal of Cambodia's relationships with the West. Contributors to the volume
examine moments of historical import in Cambodia's history from the sixteenth to the
twenty-first century. These include Cambodia's first contacts with European mercantilism the
establishment of formal French colonialism and commercialism British peace enforcement and
diplomacy after the Second World War independence modernisation and the onset of the Cold War
and the United Nations peace process and the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal of more recent
times. The result is a unique and significant new analysis of some of Cambodia's most
controversial interactions with the West demonstrating how far the West has shaped the
development of Cambodia in the contemporary epoch.
