A post-liberal peace / Oliver P. Richmond.
This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set about transforming it according to their own local requirements. Liberal peacebuilding has caused a range of unintended consequences. These e...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York :
Routledge,
2011.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in peace and conflict resolution.
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| Summary: | This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set about transforming it according to their own local requirements. Liberal peacebuilding has caused a range of unintended consequences. These emerge from the liberal peace's internal contradictions, from its claim to offer a universal normative and epistemological basis for peace, and to offer a technology and process which can be applied to achieve it. When viewed from a range of contextual and local perspectives, these top-down and distant processes often appear to represent power rather than humanitarianism or emancipation. Yet, the liberal peace also offers a civil peace and emancipation. These tensions enable a range of hitherto little understood local and contextual peacebuilding agencies to emerge, which renegotiate both the local context and the liberal peace framework, leading to a local-liberal hybrid form of peace. This might be called a post-liberal peace. Such processes are examined in this book in a range of different cases of peacebuilding and statebuilding since the end of the Cold War. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 277 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-273) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203810262 0203810260 9781136680830 1136680837 1283590271 9781283590273 9781136680786 1136680780 9781136680823 1136680829 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |