This study examines Western responses to human rights abuses in Cambodia between 1975 and 1980, years which included the murderous rule of the Khmer Rouge regime, a Vietnamese invasion, a civil war, and a famine. It argues that the Vietnamese invasion of December 1978 forced Western states to choose between the conflicting principles of promoting the individual human rights of the Cambodian people and furthering the geostrategic interests of the Western states.

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Harvard Law School, USA

Jamie Frederic Metzl

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Book Title: Western Responses to Human Rights Abuses in Cambodia, 1975–80
Authors: Jamie Frederic Metzl
Series Title: St Antony's Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24717-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-24719-6Published: 01 January 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-24717-2Published: 27 July 2016
Series ISSN: 2633-5964
Series E-ISSN: 2633-5972
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 260
Topics: International Relations, Human Rights, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights

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