1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910496022503321

Autore

Mizrahi Jean-David

Titolo

Genèse de l’État mandataire : Service des renseignements et bandes armées en Syrie et au Liban dans les années 1920 / / Jean-David Mizrahi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020

ISBN

979-1-03-510372-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (462 p.)

Collana

Internationale

Soggetti

History

zone tribale

relation internationale

diplomatie

colonialisme

État mandataire

service de renseignement

ordre politique

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

« Zone tribale du Nord-Yémen », « zone tribale de l’Ouest pakistanais », voilà bien des expressions qui reviennent dans l’actualité pour désigner des régions de confins farouchement réfractaires à l’imposition d’un nouvel ordre politique. Dès la fin du XIXe et au début du XXe siècle, les États européens, emportés dans leur mouvement d’expansion outre-mer, vinrent buter, en périphérie, sur ce type d’espace en quelque sorte interstitiel des relations internationales contemporaines. Dans ces zones où les agents traditionnels de la vie diplomatique pénétraient peu, ou mal, une expertise particulière, celle du renseignement et des agences de sécurité, parut s’imposer. Lorsque la France coloniale s’implante en Syrie et au Liban, au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale, elle doit précisément faire face à ce type de résistance, où se combinent turbulences tribales, désordres sociaux et



effervescence identitaire. La lutte qui s’engage alors entre bandes armées locales d’une part, et Service des Renseignements de l’armée française de l’autre, dépasse, et de loin, le face-à-face purement martial, mais renvoie à un choc des violences, sociale et guerrière d’un côté, étatique et militaire de l’autre, dont il n’est pas sûr que la leçon ne vaille qu’au passé.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787708703321

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 pages)

Disciplina

338.91/51059609047

Soggetti

Technical assistance, Chinese - Cambodia

Military assistance, Chinese - Cambodia

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.