Liberal Peace Transitions: Between Statebuilding and Peacebuilding
Oliver P. Richmond and Jason Franks
Abstract
Since the early 1990s, the projects of peace-building and state-building have increasingly been integrated. Since the early 2000s, this has been mainly an outcome of the United States' and the United Kingdom's support for an active, muscular and humanitarian internationalism. 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, ... More
Keywords: peacebuilding, statebuilding, United States, United Kingdom, internationalism, liberal peace, international community, democratisation, human rights, civil society
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2009 | Print ISBN-13: 9780748638765 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638765.001.0001 |
