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Liberal peace transitions : between statebuilding and peacebuilding

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. Key Features critically interrogates the theory, experience, and current outcomes of liberal peacebuilding includes five empirically-informed case studies: Cambodia, Kosovo, East Timor, Bosnia and the Middle East focuses on the key institutional aspects of liberal peacebuilding and key international actors assesses the local outcomes of liberal peacebuilding
eBook, English, ©2009
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, ©2009
Electronic books
1 online resource (x, 230 pages)
9780748642069, 0748642064
650236803
Introduction : a framework to assess liberal peace transitions
Cambodia : liberal hubris and virtual peace
Bosnia : between partition and pluralism
Libaral peace in East Timor : the emperor's new clothes?
Co-opting the liberal peace : untying the Gordian knot in Kosovo
Building/rejecting the liberal peace : state consolidation and liberal failure in the Middle East
Conclusion : evaluating the achievements of the liberal peace and revitalizing a virtual peace