OPINION

Why 'permanent neutrality' doesn't work in Cambodia

News, Sek Sophal, Published on 03/01/2019

» The end of the Cold War marked a turning point in international politics -- the collapse of socialism and the planned economy and the rise of democracy and a free market economy. Ideological conflict became a thing of the past. The absence of the East-West confrontation, however, did not necessarily constitute the absence of a power struggle.