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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Case studies Études de cas |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Richmond, Oliver P. Liberal peace transitions. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2009675447 (OCoLC)320798852 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Oliver P Richmond; Jason Franks |
ISBN: | 9780748642069 0748642064 |
OCLC Number: | 650236803 |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 230 pages) |
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. |
Responsibility: | Oliver P. Richmond and Jason Franks. |
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'This critique of liberal peacebuilding strategies, based on fieldwork in five war-torn societies, reveals variations of approach that are nevertheless commonly based on statebuilding rather than affording justice and livelihoods to populations. Richmond and Franks have identified the dysfunctionalism of these virtual states and the local resistances that give rise to hybrid and diffuse forms of social contract. It is an interrogation of the enlightenment project that leads to revisionist thinking about peacebuilding and causes us to wonder just how emancipatory liberalism really is.' -- Michael Pugh, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford 'This critique of liberal peacebuilding strategies, based on fieldwork in five war-torn societies, reveals variations of approach that are nevertheless commonly based on statebuilding rather than affording justice and livelihoods to populations. Richmond and Franks have identified the dysfunctionalism of these virtual states and the local resistances that give rise to hybrid and diffuse forms of social contract. It is an interrogation of the enlightenment project that leads to revisionist thinking about peacebuilding and causes us to wonder just how emancipatory liberalism really is.' Read more...

