From “Sphere of Scrutiny” to “Sphere of Opportunity”: The Cambodian People's Party's Vision of International Order

dc.contributor.authorTravouillon, Katrin
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-24T21:56:47Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2021-11-28T07:29:31Z
dc.description.abstractCambodia’s changing relations with the so-called “international community”, including the European Union’s decision to partially withdraw Cambodia’s preferential trade benefits and the closure of the Swedish Embassy in 2020, have given rise to concerns about Cambodia’s impending break with the West and tilt towards China. This article examines how Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has negotiated public concerns about the adjustments in international support from donor countries and institutions, particularly following the 2018 elections. Through an examination of his speeches since the early 2000s, this article argues that one of Hun Sen’s key rhetorical strategies is his sustained engagement with an inherent paradox of “the international community”: the possibility for actors to become morally excluded from, but remain structurally integrated in, the international community. Six themes he thereby developed inform his nationalist message about the advantages arising from the changing nature of Cambodia’s international cooperation, in which Cambodia is able to engage the world on an equal footing with other countries while free of any constraints imposed by its international donors. In this vision, the international order becomes a “sphere of opportunity”, rather than a “sphere of scrutiny”, for Cambodia.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn0129-797Xen_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/280412
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherInstitute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)en_AU
dc.rights© 2021 The authorsen_AU
dc.sourceContemporary Southeast Asiaen_AU
dc.subjectCambodiaen_AU
dc.subjectinternational communityen_AU
dc.subjectEUen_AU
dc.subjectelectionen_AU
dc.subjectliberal orderen_AU
dc.titleFrom “Sphere of Scrutiny” to “Sphere of Opportunity”: The Cambodian People's Party's Vision of International Orderen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage394en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage370en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationTravouillon, Katrin, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu1061908@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidTravouillon, Katrin, u1061908en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor440807 - Government and politics of Asia and the Pacificen_AU
local.identifier.absseo230203 - Political systemsen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationU1113986xPUB9en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume49en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1355/cs43-2gen_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByU1113986en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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