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Pierre P. Lizée

The most striking feature of the July 1998 elections in Cambodia was how closely they resembled the electoral exercise of May 1993. In 1993, the call to the polls was couched in terms of lofty goals of democratization of the political process in Cambodia. The actual electoral process nonetheless demonstrated that it was through the playing out of long-standing dynamics of rivalry and intimidation between opposing factions, much more than through an appeal to the popular will, that the question of power would be settled in the country. In a context where it was becoming increasingly clear that the results of the elections would not by themselves settle that …