LEADER 04102nam 22006133 450 001 9910985658703321 005 20240307080220.0 010 $a9781452970622 010 $a1452970629 010 $a9781452970615 010 $a1452970610 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30751478 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30751478 035 $a(CKB)30753154000041 035 $a(OCoLC)1417661240 035 $a(EXLCZ)9930753154000041 100 $a20240307d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Apathy of Empire $eCambodia in American Geopolitics 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aMinneapolis :$cUniversity of Minnesota Press,$d2024. 210 4$dİ2024. 215 $a1 online resource (358 pages) 311 08$a9781517915094 311 08$a1517915090 327 $aInto the breach -- Bracketing war -- Bordering war -- Aterritorial wars -- A widening war -- The perfidy of geopolitics. 330 $a"Theoretically informed and thoroughly documented, The Apathy of Empire argues that U.S. military intervention in Cambodia evinced America's efforts to construct a hegemonic spatial world order. James A. Tyner demonstrates that America's expansionist policies abroad, often bolstered by military power, were not so much about occupying territory but instead constituted the construction of a new normal for the exercise of state power"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"What America's intervention in Cambodia during the Vietnam War reveals about Cold War-era U.S. national security strategy The Apathy of Empire reveals just how significant Cambodia was to U.S. policy in Indochina during the Vietnam War, broadening the lens to include more than the often-cited incursion in 1970 or the illegal bombing after the Paris Peace Accords in 1973. This theoretically informed and thoroughly documented case study argues that U.S. military intervention in Cambodia revealed America's efforts to construct a hegemonic spatial world order. James Tyner documents the shift of America's post-1945 focus from national defense to national security. He demonstrates that America's expansionist policies abroad, often bolstered by military power, were not so much about occupying territory but instead constituted the construction of a new normal for the exercise of state power. During the Cold War, Vietnam became the geopolitical lodestar of this unfolding spatial order. And yet America's grand strategy was one of contradiction: to build a sovereign state (South Vietnam) based on democratic liberalism, it was necessary to protect its boundaries-in effect, to isolate it-through both covert and overt operations in violation of Cambodia's sovereignty. The latter was deemed necessary for the former. Questioning reductionist geopolitical understandings of states as central or peripheral, Tyner explores this paradox to rethink the formulation of the Cambodian war as sideshow, revealing it instead as a crucial site for the formation of this new normal. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aVietnam War, 1961-1975$zCambodia$xInfluence 606 $aGeopolitics$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian$2bisacsh 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics$2bisacsh 607 $aUnited States$xRelations$zCambodia 607 $aCambodia$xRelations$zUnited States 607 $aCambodia$xStrategic aspects 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1989 615 0$aVietnam War, 1961-1975$xInfluence. 615 0$aGeopolitics$xHistory 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics 676 $a327.730596 686 $aPOL054000$aPOL062000$2bisacsh 700 $aTyner$b James A$01791179 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910985658703321 996 $aThe Apathy of Empire$94328091 997 $aUNINA