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Available from Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications<br><br>
<i>Dependent Communities: Aid and Politics in Cambodia and East
Timor<br>
</i></b>by Caroline Hughes<br>
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SEAP</a>) is pleased to announce the publication of <i>Dependent
Communities: Aid and Politics in Cambodia and East Timor</i> by Caroline
Hughes, which investigates the political situations in contemporary
Cambodia and East Timor, where powerful international donors intervened
following deadly civil conflicts. <br>
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<b>About <i>Dependent Communities<br><br>
</b>Dependent Communities</i> investigates the political situations in
contemporary Cambodia and East Timor, where powerful international donors
intervened following deadly civil conflicts. This comparative analysis
critiques international policies that focus on rebuilding state
institutions to accommodate the global market. In addition, it explores
the dilemmas of politicians in Cambodia and East Timor who struggle to
satisfy both wealthy foreign benefactors and constituents at home-groups
whose interests frequently conflict.<br><br>
Caroline Hughes argues that the policies of Western aid organizations
tend to stifle active political engagement by the citizens of countries
that have been torn apart by war. The neoliberal ideology promulgated by
United Nations administrations and other international NGOs advocates
state sovereignty, but in fact “sovereignty” is too flimsy a foundation
for effective modern democratic politics. The result is an oppressive
peace that tends to rob survivors and former resistance fighters of their
agency and aspirations for genuine postwar independence.<br><br>
In her study of these two cases, Hughes demonstrates that the clientelist
strategies of Hun Sen, Cambodia's postwar leader, have created a shadow
network of elites and their followers that has been comparatively
effective in serving the country's villages, even though so often
coercive and corrupt. East Timor's postwar leaders, on the other hand,
have alienated voters by attempting to follow the guidelines of the
donors closely and ignoring the immediate needs and voices of the
people.<br><br>
<i>Dependent Communities </i>offers a searing analysis of contemporary
international aid strategies based on the author's years of fieldwork in
Cambodia and East Timor.<br><br>
<b>Caroline Hughes </b>is Associate Professor of Governance Studies at
Murdoch University, Australia; a fellow of the Murdoch Asia Research
Centre; and an advisor to the Cambodia Development Resource Institute in
Phnom Penh. She is the author of <i>The Political Economy of Cambodia's
Transition</i> and <i>UNTAC in Cambodia: The Impact on Human Rights</i>,
and is the coeditor of <i>Conflict and Change in Cambodia</i>.<br>
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Mr. Mahinder S. Kingra, Marketing Manager<br>
Cornell University Press<br>
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