Markus Karbaum

Managing Director

Dr. Karbaum Consulting

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Website: cambodia-news.net

Dr Markus Karbaum is a political scientist and managing director at Dr. Karbaum Consulting. He focuses on Cambodia’s political and socio-economic development as well as regional integration in Southeast Asia. Karbaum is one of 246 country experts who worked on the latest edition of the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index, BTI 2018. He blogs at https://cambodia-news.net/.

Die letzten Beiträge

Hun Sen at the WEF in 2010. Photo by the Word Economic Forum (S. Thanachaiary) via commons.wikimedia.org, CC BY-SA 2.0

Cambodian Elections: Hun Sen’s unbroken dominance

July 27, 2018 / Markus Karbaum

Cambodia’s vote in July is designed to confirm strongman Hun Sen. After quashing the opposition, he is geared up to extend his 33-year stint at the top. The result of Cambodia’s parliamentary elections on 29 July is already fixed. After dissolving popular oppositional Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) in November 2017, Prime Minister Hun Sen […]

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Russian Market, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo: Xiaojun Deng via flickr.com, CC BY 2.0

Is Cambodia Becoming the Sick Man of Southeast Asia?

June 29, 2016 / Markus Karbaum

Lack of transparency, accountability and judicial independence as well as widespread corruption seem to be unalterable elements of Cambodia’s development process. Could the reform bottleneck harm the country’s economic prospects and how far will the regime go to stay in power? Sometimes odds and ends are enough to reveal the whole picture. In April 2016, […]

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