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Article: Exiting Indochina: U.S. Leadership of the Cambodia Settlement and Normalization with Vietnam. By Richard H. Solomon.(Review)
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- Contemporary Southeast Asia
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- April 1, 2001
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Exiting Indochina: U.S. Leadership of the Cambodia Settlement and Normalization with Vietnam. By Richard H. Solomon. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2000. 116pp.
If Cambodia's precarious "peace" were represented in a mandala, the reader might see concentric circles depicting the fratricidal factions of the Khmer state, all the major world powers, and the regional players -- ASEAN, Australia and Japan. In this picture, the artifacts of Khmer culture and history must jostle with unexploded ordnance, land mines, and all the unfortunate legacies of a bitter war that continue to take a toll on human life and limb.
The enormity of ...