Books and Volumes
Viral Sovereignty and the Political Economy of Pandemics: What Explains How Countries Handle Outbreaks?, Europa International Perspectives Series, Routledge, forthcoming November 2021.
“Coronavirus: Politics, Economics, and Pandemics,” Politics and the Life Sciences, Virtual Issue 3, 2020, co-edited with J. Quitzon. PLS is the journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, and is published by Cambridge University Press.
Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy, New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2013.
The Hungry Dragon: How China’s Resource Quest is Reshaping the World (with S. Burgos), London, UK: Routledge, 2013. Released as paperback, 2015.
Articles and Chapters
“Transnational political economic structures: Explaining transnational environmental movements against dams in the lower Mekong region,” (with Sokphea Young), Third World Quarterly, forthcoming late 2021.
“Chapter 9: Ethnicity in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam,” (with G. Morales), Book Chapter, edited by M. Weiner (Soka University of America and San Diego State University), Handbook on Race and Ethnicity in Asia, Routledge, forthcoming 17 August 2021.
“Cambodia: Economy,” (with G. Morales), Book Chapter, edited by J. Love, The Far East and Australasia, 52nd edition, Routledge/Europa World, 5 November 2020.
“Cambodia: Growth with a Red Flag,” (with S. Burgos), Book Chapter, Southeast Asia and the ASEAN Economic Community: Potential and Opportunities, edited by RJ Macdonald (Université du Québec à Montréal), Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
“Decentralization Reforms in Cambodia,” (with E. Netra), Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, 33(2): 209-23, August 2016.
"Combating corruption in Cambodia," Asian Education and Development Studies, 5(2): 159 – 174, April 2016.
“Greater China, Cambodia, and the Garment Industry,” Book Chapter, Chinese Global Production Networks in ASEAN, edited by YC Kim (University of Greenwich), Springer, 2016.
“China-Cambodia-US Nexus,” Book Chapter, New Dynamics in US-China Relations: Contending for the Asia Pacific, edited by M. Li and K. Kemburi (Nanyang Technological University) London: Routledge, 2015.
“Cambodia’s Garment Industry: A Case Study in Governance,” Journal of Southeast Asian Economies (formerly ASEAN Economic Bulletin), 30(1), April 2013.
“Emerging Infectious Diseases and Public Health Policy: Insights from Cambodia, Hong Kong and Indonesia,” (with S. Burgos), Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 62(1):96-101, March 2013.
“Swine flu: Mexico's handling of A/H1N1 in comparative perspective,” Politics and the Life Sciences, 31(1-2): 52-66, Spring/Fall 2012.
“Cambodia: The Challenge of Adding Value to Agriculture after Conflict” (with S. Burgos), Chapter 8 in an edited volume by Özerdem and Roberts entitled Challenging Post-Conflict Environments: Sustainable Agriculture (Ashgate), November 2012.
“Emerging Infectious Disease Surveillance in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Naval Area Medical Research Unit 2,” Asian Security, 8(2): 164-187, July 2012.
“Avian Influenza: The Political Economy of Disease Control in Cambodia,” Politics and the Life Sciences, 30(2): 2-19, Fall 2011.
“China’s Oil Hunger in Angola: History and Perspective” (with S. Burgos), Journal of Contemporary China, 21(74): 351-367, March 2012.
“The Geopolitics of China's Global Resources Quest” (with S. Burgos), Geopolitics, 17(1): 47−79, 2012.
“Chapter 4: Growth in the Rice and Garments Sectors” in a refereed volume by C. Hughes (University of Murdoch) and K. Un (Northern Illinois University), eds. Cambodia’s Economic Transformation, Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, 2011.
“China’s Natural Resource Appetite in Brazil” (with S. Burgos), Asian Journal of Latin American Studies, 24(2): 69-89, 2011.
“Local Good Governance of Rural Infrastructure Development Planning: Case Studies of Commune Councils in Cambodia” (with Y. Sokphea and S. Pongquan), International Journal of Environment and Rural Development, 2(1): 59-64, April 2011.
“The Political Economy of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Cambodia,” International Journal of Poultry Science (Asian Network for Scientific Information), 10(1): 71-75, January 2011.
“Towards effective emerging infectious diseases surveillance in Cambodia and Indonesia,” Poster Presentation Abstract, supplement issue of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 14(supp 2), p. S98, July 2010.
“China's Strategic Interests in Cambodia: Influence and Resources” (with S. Burgos), Asian Survey (University of California Press), 50(3): 615-639, May/June 2010.
“Does Patronage Still Drive Politics for the Rural Poor in the Developing World? A Comparative Perspective from the Livestock Sector” (with D. K. Leonard, J. Brass, M. Nelson, D. Fahey, T. Fairfield, M. Johnson Gning, M. Halderman, B. McSherry, D. Coren Moehler, W. Prichard, R. Turner, T. Vu, and J. Dijkman), Development and Change (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague), 41(3): 475-494, May 2010.
“Cambodia’s Victim Zero: Global and National Responses to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza” in Ian Scoones (University of Sussex), ed. Avian Influenza: Science, Policy and Politics, 65-92, London: Earthscan, April 2010.
“Livelihoods and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Cambodia” (with S. Burgos), World’s Poultry Science Journal, 65(4): 633-640, December 2009.
“Transitional Justice Dilemma: The Case of Cambodia” (with V. Duong), Peace and Conflict Review, 4(1): 18-36, Fall 2009.
“The Political Economy of Aid and Regime Legitimacy in Cambodia” in a volume Joakim Ojendal (University of Gothenburg) and Mona Lilja (University of Gothenburg), eds. Beyond Democracy in Cambodia: Political Reconstruction in a Post-Conflict Society, Series: Democracy in Asia | Volume: 12, Copenhagen: NIAS Press, July 2009.
“Does Aid Dependence Worsen Governance?” International Public Management Journal, 10(3): 259-286, September 2007.
“The Political Economy of Aid and Governance in Cambodia,” Asian Journal of Political Science, 15(1): 68-96, June 2007.
“How Does Spousal Education Matter? Some Evidence from Cambodia,” (with T. Fujii), Asian Development Review, 19(1): 117-138, November 2002.
“Cambodia and the Washington Consensus,” Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 11(2): 73-97, 1997.
