GOVERNING CAMBODIA'S FORESTS: The International Politics of Policy Reform

摘要

Worldwide, the remaining natural resources in post-conflict societies are both blessed and cursed. Cambodia's forests appear cursed, given their inexorable rate of depletion. Andrew Cock's Governing Cambodia's Forests thoroughly delves into the issue, interrogating not only the role of the ruling elites' bargaining power vis-a-vis a forestry policy prescribed by Western donors, but also the elites' subjugation of this policy. The elites' ability to manipulate policy for their respective interests represents a failure of the external initiative to protect natural resources. Cock makes these arguments over seven chapters, spanning theoretical perspectives to empirical evidence, and including forest governance practices in other tropical nations for a point of comparison.