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Liberal peace transitions : between statebuilding and peacebuilding / Oliver P. Richmond and Jason Franks.

By:

Richmond, Oliver P [author]

Contributor(s):

Franks, Jason, 1969-

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780748642977 (pbk)
0748642978 (pbk)

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

JZ5538 R525 2011

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	UAE Federation Library \| مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection \| المجموعات العامة	JZ5538 R525 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C.1	Library Use Only \| داخل المكتبة فقط		30010000399740
Book	UAE Federation Library \| مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection \| المجموعات العامة	JZ5538 R525 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C.2	Available		30010000399741

Originally published: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-224) and index.

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

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