| The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States Contributor(s): Barma, Naazneen H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107169313 ISBN-13: 9781107169319 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Peace - Political Science | Comparative Politics |
| Dewey: 355.357 |
| LCCN: 2016032813 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.20 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian - Cultural Region - Asian |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Barma, Naazneen H.: - Naazneen H. Barma is Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. Her research focuses on international interventions in post-conflict states and the political economy of development, and has appeared in scholarly and policy publications. She has worked with the World Bank as a governance and institutional reform specialist in the East Asia Pacific Region and is a founding member of Bridging the Gap, an initiative devoted to enhancing the policy impact of contemporary international affairs scholarship. |