1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463957203321

Autore

Mertha Andrew <1965->

Titolo

Brothers in arms : Chinese aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979 / / Andrew Mertha

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, New York : , : Cornell University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-5017-3123-8

0-8014-7073-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Disciplina

338.91/51059609047

Soggetti

Technical assistance, Chinese - Cambodia

Military assistance, Chinese - Cambodia

Electronic books.

Cambodia Foreign relations China

China Foreign relations Cambodia

Cambodia Politics and government 1975-1979

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- 1. China's Relations with Democratic Kampuchea -- 2. The Khmer Rouge Bureaucracy -- 3. The Bureaucratic Structure of Chinese Overseas Assistance -- 4. DK Pushback and Military Institutional Integrity -- 5. The Failure of the Kampong Som Petroleum Refinery Project -- 6. China's Development of Democratic Kampuchean Trade -- 7. What Is Past Is Present -- Notes -- Glossary of Selected Terms -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910132415203321

Titolo

Gesunde Pflanzen : Pflanzenschutz, Verbraucherschutz, Umweltschutz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Berlin], : [Blackwell Verlag]

ISSN

1439-0345

Soggetti

Plants, Protection of

Plant diseases

Plant parasites

Plant ecology

Pflanzenschutz

Patologia vegetal

Ecologia vegetal

Protecció de les plantes

Paràsits de les plantes

Periodicals.

Zeitschrift

Online-Publikation

Revistes electròniques.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed