TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barma,Naazneen
TI  - The peacebuilding puzzle: political order in post-conflict states 
SN  - 9781316718513 (ebook)
U1  - 355.3/57 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - United Nations
KW  - Peacekeeping forces
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Peace-building
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Conflict management
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Nov 2016); Open Access title
N2  - Transformative peace operations fall short of achieving the modern political order sought in post-conflict countries because the interventions themselves empower post-conflict elites intent on forging a neopatrimonial political order. The Peacebuilding Puzzle explains the disconnect between the formal institutional engineering undertaken by international interventions, and the governance outcomes that emerge in their aftermath. Barma's comparative analysis of interventions in Cambodia, East Timor, and Afghanistan focuses on the incentives motivating domestic elites over a sequence of three peacebuilding phases: the elite peace settlement, the transitional governance period, and the aftermath of intervention. The international community advances certain forms of institutional design at each phase in the pursuit of effective and legitimate governance. Yet, over the course of the peacebuilding pathway, powerful post-conflict elites co-opt the very processes and institutions intended to guarantee modern political order and dominate the practice of governance within those institutions to their own ends. This title is also available as Open Access
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316718513
ER  -