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Peacebuilding: The Twenty Years´ Crisis, 1997-2017
David Chandler
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This book is the first to chart the rise and fall of peacebuilding. Charting its beginnings, as an ad-hoc extension of peacekeeping responsibilities, and formalisation, as a UN-supported international project of building liberal states. Twenty years later, the grounding policy assumptions of peacebuilding - that democracy, the rule of law and free markets were a universal solution to conflict-prone states and societies - have been revealed as naive at best, and at worst, hubristic and Eurocentric. Here, Chandler traces the disillusionment with international peacebuilding, and the discursive shifts in the self-understanding of ... Read more
This book is the first to chart the rise and fall of peacebuilding. Charting its beginnings, as an ad-hoc extension of peacekeeping responsibilities, and formalisation, as a UN-supported international project of building liberal states. Twenty years later, the grounding policy assumptions of peacebuilding - that democracy, the rule of law and free markets were a universal solution to conflict-prone states and societies - have been revealed as naive at best, and at worst, hubristic and Eurocentric. Here, Chandler traces the disillusionment with international peacebuilding, and the discursive shifts in the self-understanding of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
243
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319503219
SKU
V9783319503219
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About David Chandler
David Chandler is Professor of International Relations, University of Westminster. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding and Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses and author or editor of around 20 books and many journal articles and book chapters in the area of peacebuilding and international intervention.
Reviews for Peacebuilding: The Twenty Years´ Crisis, 1997-2017
For years, scholars and practitioners have sought to explain why so many international peacebuilding initiatives and programmes have not generated their intended effects, despite significant resources and attention. This masterful book recasts the questions ... There is much to commend in this book. It poses a real challenge to peacebuilding practitioners, to scholars, and indeed to anyone who cares about ... Read more