A liberal peace? : the problems and practices of peacebuilding / edited by Susanna Campbell, David Chandler and Meera Sabaratnam.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the politics of liberal peace / Susanna Campbell, David Chandler and Meera Sabaratnam -- The liberal peace? : an intellectual history of international conflict management, 1990-2010 / Meera Sabaratnam -- Critiques of liberal peace / Roland Paris -- The effects of peacebuilding : sovereignty, patronage and power / Ole Jacob Sending -- The liberal peace : a tough sell? / Christoph Zürcher -- Routine learning? : how peacebuilding organisations prevent liberal peace / Susanna Campbell -- Promoting women's rights in Afghanistan : the ambiguous footprint of the West / Torunn Wimpelmann Chaudhary, Orzala Ashraf Nemat and Astri Suhrke -- Neither liberal nor peaceful? : practices of 'global justice' by the ICC / Adam Branch -- Civil society beyond the liberal peace and its critique / Thania Paffenholz -- Alternatives to liberal peace? / Roland Paris -- The uncritical critique of 'liberal peace' / David Chandler -- A reality check for the critique of the liberal peace / Shahar Hameiri -- Hybrid peace : how does hybrid peace come about? / Roger Mac Ginty -- Resistance and the post-liberal peace / Oliver P. Richmond -- Situated critiques of intervention : Mozambique and the diverse politics of response / Meera Sabaratnam.

Moving beyond the binary argument between those who buy into the aims of creating liberal democratic states grounded in free markets and rule of law, and those who critique and oppose them, this critical volume takes a fresh look at the liberal peace debate.