The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is hosting “Communism and the World,” a webinar series to complement VOC’s curricular resource, Communism: Its Ideology, Its History, and Its Legacy. Dr. Bradley J. Murg joined us for the ninth installment, discussing Communist Cambodia’s former Khmer Rouge rule and its continued impact on Cambodia today.About the speaker: Dr. Bradley J. Murg is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of International Relations at Paragon International University in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Additionally, Dr. Murg holds positions as Director of Research at Future Forum (an independent think tank in Phnom Penh); Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace; and Distinguished Fellow at the Royal University of Law and Economics. His work, supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council and the International Research and Exchanges Board, focuses on the contemporary international relations in Southeast Asia; the political economy of foreign aid; and the Greater Mekong Subregion as a whole. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Emory University with a B.A./M.A. in philosophy, received a M.Sc. in economic history from the London School of Economics, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington. His commentary has been published in Nikkei Asian Review, South China Morning Post, and The Asia Times. Dr. Murg’s most recent work is “Cambodia 2040: A Foresighting Analaysis,” a three volume series published in January 2020.Follow VOC:victimsofcommunism.orgTwitter: @VoCommunismFacebook: victimsofcommunismInstagram: victimsofcommunism

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