A Post-Liberal Peace (Routledge Studies in Peace and by Oliver Richmond

This e-book examines how the liberal peace test of the post-Cold battle atmosphere has did not connect to its aim populations, that have in its place set approximately reworking it in keeping with their very own neighborhood requirements.

Liberal peacebuilding has brought on a number accidental outcomes. those emerge from the liberal peace’s inner contradictions, from its declare to provide a common normative and epistemological foundation for peace, and to provide a expertise and approach that are utilized to accomplish it. while seen from various contextual and native views, those top-down and far away techniques usually seem to symbolize strength instead of humanitarianism or emancipation. but, the liberal peace additionally bargains a civil peace and emancipation. those tensions permit a number of hitherto little understood neighborhood and contextual peacebuilding companies to emerge, which renegotiate either the neighborhood context and the liberal peace framework, resulting in a local-liberal hybrid type of peace. this would be known as a post-liberal peace. Such tactics are tested during this publication in a number of diversified instances of peacebuilding and statebuilding because the finish of the chilly battle.

This e-book might be of curiosity to scholars of peacebuilding, peacekeeping, peace and clash reports, overseas businesses and IR/Security Studies.