Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia
Subtitle: Political Culture and the Causes of War
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: May 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780804730495
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; International relations; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Second World War, 1939-1945; Indo-China - History; History; History - General History; History: World; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Asia - Southeast Asia; International Relations - General; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; History / Southeast Asia; Far East; 20th century; Cambodia; Cambodian-Vietnamese Conflict, 1977-1991; Foreign Relations; Vietnam
Description: On December 25, 1978, the armed forces of Vietnam launched a full-scale invasion of Cambodia that marked a turning point in the first and only extended war fought between two communist regimes. The Vietnamese forced Pol Pot's Khmers Rouges regime from its seat of power in Phnom Penh, but the ensuing war was a major source of international tension throughout the last decade of the Cold War.

This book is the first comprehensive, scholarly analysis of the causes of the Vietnamese invasion, and it is the only study of Southeast Asian affairs by a Western scholar who has made use of the rich archives of the former Communist Party of the Soviet Union.