Although President Trump claimed that he negotiated a peace deal between Thailand and Cambodia, the border wars continue. What is causing this conflict?
How does history and national identity impact this war? Why did the war breakout again in 2025? And who might have the greatest influence in bringing the countries to peace? [ dur: 58mins. ]
- Michael G Vann is Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento. He is the co-author of The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam. You can find his articles in Jacobin. His article on this topic is The Thailand-Cambodia War Was About Shoring Up Elite Power.
- John D. Ciorciari is Dean of the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of The Limits of Alignment,Sovereignty Sharing in Fragile States, and Thailand and Cambodia: The Battle for Preah Vihear.
This program is produced by Ankine Aghassian, Maria Armoudian, Doug Becker, Anna Lapin and Sudd Dongre.
Politics and Activism, War / Weapons, Cambodia, Thailand
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