Table of Contents

Preface Creating the Khmer Rouge The U.S. Role in Elevating Pol Pot to Power The Mythology of U.S. Policy toward Cambodia Sustaining the Khmer Rouge Scenarios for Cambodia in the Early 1980s The U.S. Role in Preserving Pol Pot Marginalizing the Khmer Rouge Scenarios for Cambodia in the 1990s A Campaign to Oppose the Return of the Khmer Rouge Beyond Cambodia Toward a New US Foreign Policy Appendix: Options Analysis References Index

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This analysis of U.S. policy toward Cambodia studies issues that remain especially pertinent in the aftermath of the Cold War by examining U.S. failures in Cambodia.

About the Author

MICHAEL HAAS is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is the author of Genocide by Proxy: Cambodian Pawn on a Superpower Chessboard (Praeger, 1991), The Asian Way to Peace, Korean Reunification and The Pacific Way: Regional Cooperation in the South Pacific (all Praeger, 1989).