Format:
XI, 392 S.
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24 cm
ISBN:
9789280811742
Content:
Peacebuilding in conflict-prone or post-conflict countries -- such as East Timor, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone -- aims to prevent the re-emergence or escalation of violent conflict and establish a durable peace. This volume explores and critiques the 'liberal' premise of contemporary peacebuilding: the promotion of democracy, market-based economic reforms and a range of other institutions associated with 'modern' states as a driving force for building peace. Whilst focusing mainly upon cases of major UN peacebuilding, it also considers the implications and record of liberal peacebuilding through a wider range of experiences. It goes beyond the narrow focus on democracy and market economics by interrogating a wider area of peacebuilding activities, including the (re)construction of state institutions.--Publisher's description
Content:
Africa; Sierra Leone; Afghanistan; Bosnia-Herzegovina; Timor-Leste; Sri Lanka; Palestine; Israel; United Nations; Lebanon; Cambodia; Central America
Content:
"Peacebuilding in conflict-prone or post-conflict countries -- such as East Timor, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone -- aims to prevent the re-emergence or escalation of violent conflict and establish a durable peace. This volume explores and critiques the 'liberal' premise of contemporary peacebuilding: the promotion of democracy, market-based economic reforms and a range of other institutions associated with 'modern' states as a driving force for building peace. Whilst focusing mainly upon cases of major UN peacebuilding, it also considers the implications and record of liberal peacebuilding through a wider range of experiences. It goes beyond the narrow focus on democracy and market economics by interrogating a wider area of peacebuilding activities, including the (re)construction of state institutions."--Publisher's description
Content:
Peacebuilding in conflict-prone or post-conflict countries - such as East Timor, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Sierra Leone - aims to prevent the reemergence or escalation of violent conflict and establish a durable peace. This volume explores and critiques the "liberal" premise of contemporary peacebuilding: the promotion of democracy, market-based economic reforms, and a range of other institutions associated with modern states as a driving force for building peace. If a liberal peace is viable, is it also legitimate? Or is it, as some claim, a new form of hegemonic control or neo-imperialism? What is the relationship between statebuilding, liberal peacebuilding, and the more emancipatory agendas of peacebuilding? What or whose vision of the state is being promoted? Is peacebuilding a realist strategic enterprise meant to contain conflict and its international repercussions, or can it resolve the underlying sources of conflict and engage with grassroots actors and issues? "New Perspectives on Liberal Peacebuilding" provides fresh insights into these debates. While focusing mainly upon cases of major UN peacebuilding, it also considers the implications and record of liberal peacebuilding through a wider range of experiences. It goes beyond the narrow focus on democracy and market economics by considering a wider area of activities, including the (re)construction of state institutions. With the involvement of scholars and analysts from conflict-prone and post-conflict societies, the book also discusses the implications of peacebuilding in broader debates about power, legitimacy, and international order.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction
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"Liberal" peacebuilding debates
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Beyond liberal peace? Responses to "backsliding"
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Towards life welfare
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Does liberal peacebuildinjg have a future
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Transitional justice and the liberal peace
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Acritique of the political economy of the liberal peace : elements of an African eperience
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Earth calling the liberals : locating the political culture of Sierra Leone as the terrain for "reform"
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Afghanistan : justice sector reform
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Peacebuilding in Bosnia-Herzegovina : reflections on the development-democracy link
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"We just take what they offer" : community rempowerment in post-war Timor-Leste
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Themaking of Sri Lanka's post-conflict economic package and the failure of the 2001-2004 peace process
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Beware of liberal peacebuilders bearing gifts : the deviancy of liberal peace in Palestine and Israel
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Liberal interventions, illiberal outcomes : the United Nations, western powers and Lebanon
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Re-examining liberal peacebuilding in light of realism and pragmatism : the Cambodian experience
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Revisiting the "liberal peace" thesis applied to Central America : new insights for and against the Wilsonian approach
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Friedenskonsolidierung
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Nachkriegszeit
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Gesellschaftsordnung
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Demokratie
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Marktwirtschaft
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Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Richmond, Oliver P. 1969-
Author information:
Paris, Roland 1967-
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