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Pol Pot at bay: People's War and the breakdown of the 1991 Paris Agreements. (1999)
Thesis
Heder, S. R. Pol Pot at bay: People's War and the breakdown of the 1991 Paris Agreements. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This study traces the attempt by Pol Pot's Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) - renamed the party of Democratic Kampuchea (PDK) in 1982 - to regain the power it lost in January 1979 as a result of a Vietnamese invasion. It describes broadly the CPK/P... Read More about Pol Pot at bay: People's War and the breakdown of the 1991 Paris Agreements..

The Imperial Peace: Democracy, Force and Globalization (1999)
Journal Article
Laffey, M., & Barkawi, T. (1999). The Imperial Peace: Democracy, Force and Globalization. European Journal of International Relations, 5(4), 403-434. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066199005004001

To date, the only account of the `zone of peace' among states in the core of the international system is that found in the democratic peace debates. We rework the conceptual parameters through which the object of analysis — the zone of peace — is def... Read More about The Imperial Peace: Democracy, Force and Globalization.

From ‘Warlord’ to ‘Democratic’ President: how Charles Taylor won the 1997 Liberian elections (1999)
Journal Article
Harris, D. (1999). From ‘Warlord’ to ‘Democratic’ President: how Charles Taylor won the 1997 Liberian elections. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 37(3), 431-455. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X99003109

For the best part of seven years, an increasing number of warring factions fought a vicious civil war for control of the West African state of Liberia. In August 1996, the fourteenth peace accord led to presidential and parliamentary elections in Jul... Read More about From ‘Warlord’ to ‘Democratic’ President: how Charles Taylor won the 1997 Liberian elections.