Liberal Peace Transitions Between Statebuilding and Peacebuilding

by Richmond, Oliver; Franks, Jason

• ISBN13: 9780748638765
• ISBN10: 0748638768
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-16
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

This book examines the nature of "liberal peace," the international community's approach to post-conflict statebuilding. Critiquing this one-size-fits-all paradigm, the authors break down liberal peace theory into its constituent parts: democratization, 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 with regard to Cambodia, Kosovo, East Timor, Bosnia, and the Middle East.

Author Biography

Oliver P. Richmond is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. He is author of Mediating in Cyprus(1998), Maintaining Order, Making Peace (2002), The Transformation of Peace (2005) and Peace in IR (2008). Jason Franks is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is author of Rethinking the Roots of Terrorism (2006).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vi
List of Acronyms	p. vii
Introduction: a Framework to Assess Liberal Peace Transitions	p. 1
Cambodia: Liberal Hubris and Virtual Peace	p. 18
Bosnia: Between Partition and Pluralism	p. 54
Liberal Peace in East Timor: the Emperors' New Clothes?	p. 83
Co-opting the Liberal Peace: Untying the Gordian Knot in Kosovo	p. 114
Building/Rejecting the Liberal Peace: State Consolidation and Liberal Failure in the Middle East	p. 149
Conclusion: Evaluating the Achievements of the Liberal Peace and Revitalising a Virtual Peace	p. 181
Select Bibliography	p. 216
Index	p. 225
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