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The NGO Game: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in the Balkans and Beyond

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Description for The NGO Game: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in the Balkans and Beyond Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 18, 5 black & white tables, 13 charts. BIC Classification: 1DV; JPWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .

In most post-conflict countries nongovernmental organizations are everywhere, but their presence is misunderstood. In The NGO Game Patrice McMahon investigates the unintended outcomes of what she calls the NGO boom in Bosnia and Kosovo. Using her years of fieldwork and interviews, McMahon argues that when international actors try to rebuild and reconstruct post-conflict countries, they often rely on and look to NGOs. Although policymakers and scholars tend to accept and even celebrate NGO involvement in post-conflict and transitioning countries, they rarely examine why NGOs have become so popular, what NGOs do, or how they affect everyday life.After a conflict, international ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501709241
SKU
V9781501709241
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About Patrice C. McMahon
Patrice C. McMahon is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska. She is the author of Taming Ethnic Hatred, coauthor of American Exceptionalism Reconsidered and coeditor of several books, including most recently State Responses to Human Security.

Reviews for The NGO Game: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in the Balkans and Beyond
A detailed, tough-minded study of what happened when a swarm of nongovernmental organizations rushed into Bosnia and Kosovo in the wake of conflicts during the 1990s.
Foreign Affairs
McMahon offers an objective assessment of the relationship between local and International NGOs in the peacebuilding proces which is both engaging and instructive.
European Review of International Studies
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