Liberal Peace Transitions: Between Statebuilding and Peacebuilding

by Oliver P. Richmond and Jason Franks

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748638768
• ISBN13: 9780748638765
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"