Troubled Relations

by Clymer, Kenton

• ISBN13: 9780875806150
• ISBN10: 0875806155
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-20
• Publisher: Northern Illinois Univ Pr

Summary

This accessible overviewbased on Clymers 2004 prize-winning historytraces U.S. relations with Cambodia and offers fresh insights on American diplomacy. Troubled Relations will interest those concerned with American diplomatic history, Cold War history, the Vietnam War, or Southeast Asia.

Author Biography

Kenton Clymer, author of four other books and many articles on the history of American foreign relations, is Distinguished Research Professor of History at Northern Illinois University.

Table of Contents

Nineteenth-and early twentieth-century encounters	p. 3
Cambodia - the view from the United States, 1940-1954	p. 14
From optimism to the year of troubles, 1954-1960	p. 26
A casualty of war - to the break in relations, 1961-1965	p. 49
Prelude to tragedy - the United States' nonrelationship with Cambodia, 1965-1969	p. 74
Richard Nixon and Cambodia - diplomatic relations and bombs	p. 91
Sticking with Lon Nol	p. 116
Denouement - Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger, and the fall of Cambodia	p. 147
Jimmy Carter, human rights, and Cambodia	p. 165
Toward a new beginning	p. 182
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