Strongman

The Extraordinary Life of Hun Sen

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• Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Edition
• Year: 2013
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9789814484602
• Topic: History
• Index: History

Strongman: The Extraordinary Life of Hun Sen is the biography of the Cambodian leader whose private life has been a closely guarded secret. Fully updated and revised from the authors' first edition (Hun Sen: Strongman of Cambodia, published 1999), this volume is based on recently declassified archival documents and hours of new interviews with Hun Sen, his wife Bun Rany, son Hun Manet, other family members and associates. The book chronicles the life of Hun Sen from obscurity as a pagoda boy to strongman status. It reveals the life of Hun Sen and Bun Rany under the Khmer Rouge regime, their troubled romance as junior Khmer Rouge cadres, his escape to Vietnam, and triumphant return to liberate his country from genocide, and his emergence as the longest-serving leader in Southeast Asia.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Hun Sen’s Life and Times
• The Players and their Relationship to Hun Sen
• List of Abbreviations Used in the Book
• Map of Cambodia and Its Neighbours
• Map of Hun Sen’s Secret Journeys
• Prologue: A Short History of Cambodia
• I: Days in the Kompong and the Pagoda: 1952–70
• II: Deep Inside the Maquis: 1970–77
• III: Escape to Vietnam: 1977–79
• IV: Liberation War Against the Khmer Rouge: 1977–89
• V: Ascent of a Peasant to Power: 1978–97
• VI: U.S. Cold War Policy toward Phnom Penh and Hun Sen: 1982–90
• VII: At Crossroads in the Post-Cold War: 1990–93
• VIII: The Peasant and the Princes: 1991–97
• IX: The Coalition: 1993–97
• X: The Huns: 1975–98
• XI: Taking Charge: 1995–99
• XII: Planning the Royal Succession: 2001–2003
• XIII: Embracing Democracy: 2002
• XIV: The Widening Clan: 1999–2003
• XV: The Grooming of the Manet Generation: 2003
• XVI: An Eventual Validation: 1990–2013
• Notes
• Bibliography
• List of Interviews
• Index
• About the Authors