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The Apathy of Empire - James A. Tyner

The Apathy of Empire

Cambodia in American Geopolitics

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Buch | Hardcover
360 Seiten
2024
University of Minnesota Press (Verlag)
978-1-5179-1508-7 (ISBN)
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What America’s intervention in Cambodia during the Vietnam War reveals about Cold War–era U.S. national security strategy
 

The Apathy of Empire reveals just how significant Cambodia was to U.S. policy in Indochina during the Vietnam War, broadening the lens to include more than the often-cited incursion in 1970 or the illegal bombing after the Paris Peace Accords in 1973. This theoretically informed and thoroughly documented case study argues that U.S. military intervention in Cambodia revealed America’s efforts to construct a hegemonic spatial world order. 

 

James Tyner documents the shift of America’s post-1945 focus from national defense to national security. He demonstrates that America’s expansionist policies abroad, often bolstered by military power, were not so much about occupying territory but instead constituted the construction of a new normal for the exercise of state power. During the Cold War, Vietnam became the geopolitical lodestar of this unfolding spatial order. And yet America’s grand strategy was one of contradiction: to build a sovereign state (South Vietnam) based on democratic liberalism, it was necessary to protect its boundaries—in effect, to isolate it—through both covert and overt operations in violation of Cambodia’s sovereignty. The latter was deemed necessary for the former. 

 

Questioning reductionist geopolitical understandings of states as central or peripheral, Tyner explores this paradox to rethink the formulation of the Cambodian war as sideshow, revealing it instead as a crucial site for the formation of this new normal.

 

 

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James A. Tyner is professor of geography at Kent State University. His books include Dead Labor: Toward a Political Economy of Premature Death and The Alienated Subject: On the Capacity to Hurt (both from Minnesota).

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Minnesota
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 544 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10 1-5179-1508-2 / 1517915082
ISBN-13 978-1-5179-1508-7 / 9781517915087
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