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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213846803321

Autore

Barma Naazneen

Titolo

The peacebuilding puzzle : political order in post-conflict states / / Naazneen H. Barma [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, UK, : Cambridge University Press, 2016

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2017

ISBN

1-316-76178-9

1-316-76682-9

1-316-71851-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

POL000000

Disciplina

355.3/57

Soggetti

Peace-building

Peacekeeping forces - Developing countries

Conflict management - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Nov 2016).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.