Liberal Peace Transitions: Between Statebuilding and Peacebuilding

ISBN-13: 9780748642977 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str.

Oliver P. Richmond;Jason Franks

Opis

This book examines the nature of 'liberal peace': the common aim of the international community's approach to post-conflict statebuilding. Adopting a particularly critical stance on this one-size-fits-all paradigm, it explores the process by breaking down liberal peace theory into its constituent parts: democratisation, free market reform and development, human rights, civil society, and the rule of law.Readers are provided with critically and theoretically informed empirical access to the 'technology' of the liberal peacebuilding process, particularly in regard to Cambodia, Kosovo, East Timor, Bosnia and the Middle East.

Spis treści

Introduction: A Framework to Assess Liberal Peace Transitions; 1. Cambodia: Liberal Hubris and Virtual Peace; 2. Bosnia: Between Partition and Pluralism; 3. Liberal Peace in East Timor: The Emperors' New Clothes?; 4. Co-opting the Liberal Peace: Untying the Gordian Knot in Kosovo; 5. Building/ Rejecting the Liberal Peace: State Consolidation and Liberal Failure in the Middle East; Conclusion: Evaluating the Achievements of the Liberal Peace and Revitalising a Virtual Peace; Bibliography.