ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews efforts to reach a Cambodian peace agreement, analyses the positions and interests of the contending parties, and examines US policy dilemmas and possible options. Vietnam's military withdrawal from Cambodia, and more forthcoming stance on some humanitarian issues of importance to the United States increased the debate in the United States over the appropriate US policy toward the Cambodian crisis and over the related question of US normalization of relations with Vietnam. US policymakers in Congress and the executive branch face continuing dilemmas for US policy in Cambodia. The dilemmas for US policy are sharpened because of the differences among China and Association of Southeast Asian Nations countries regarding the appropriate role of the Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese influence in Cambodia after the Vietnamese military withdrawal. In general, US policy has striven to get the Vietnamese to withdraw, to prevent the return of the Khmer Rouge, and to allow the Cambodians to determine their own political future.
