This book explores the meaning of local ownership in peacebuilding and examines the
ways in which it has been, and could be, operationalized in post-conflict environments. In …

The liberal way of war and the liberal way of rule are correlated; this book traces that
correlation to liberalism's original commitment to'making life live'. Committed to making life …

This article examines questions of local ownership in post‐conflict peacebuilding and makes
the case that the complex relationship between insiders and outsiders lies at the very heart …

The ideology of the liberal peace has propelled the political economies of war-torn societies
into a scheme of global convergence towards" market liberalisation". This orthodoxy was an …

Catherine Baker offers an up-to-date, balanced and concise introductory account of the
Yugoslav wars of the 1990s and their aftermath. The volume incorporates the latest …

The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the core concepts, theories, approaches,
processes, and intervention designs in the field. The central theme is the value of …

Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Exploring the role of favors
in social welfare systems in postwar, postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina, this volume …

Shahar Hameiri argues that state building interventions are creating a new form of
transnationally regulated statehood. Using case-studies from the Asia-Pacific, he analyzes …

State-building under the aegis of international administrations has faced various hurdles
and obstacles in Kosovo and Timor-Leste—failures that came to full light in March 2004 in …

In this volume, the term 'the liberal peace'is understood as the dominant critical intellectual
framework currently applied to post-Cold War policies and practices of post-conflict …