pt. 1. Themes: Introduction / Edward Newman, Roland Paris and Oliver P. Richmond ; "Liberal" peacebuilding debates / Edward Newman ; Beyond liberal peace? Responses to "backsliding" / Oliver P. Richmond ; Towards life welfare / Michael Pugh ; Does liberal peacebuilding have a future? / Roland Paris ; Transitional justice and the liberal peace / Chandra Lekha Sriram -- pt. 2. Cases and experiences: A critique of the political economy of the liberal peace : elements of an African experience / M. A. Mohamed Salih ; Earth calling the liberals : locating the political culture of Sierra Leone as the terrain for "reform" / Ian Taylor ; Afghanistan : justice sector reform / Astri Suhrke and Kaja Borchgrevink ; Peacebuilding in Bosnia-Herzegovina : reflections on the development-democracy link / Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic ; "We just take what they offer" : community empowerment in post-war Timor-Leste / Caroline Hughes ; The making of Sri Lanka's post-conflict economic package and the failure of the 2001-2004 peace process / Rajesh Venugopal ; Beware of liberal peacebuilders bearing gifts : the deviancy of liberal peace in Palestine and Israel / Jason Franks ; Liberal interventions, illiberal outcomes : the United Nations, Western powers and Lebanon / Marie-Joëlle Zahar ; Re-examining liberal peacebuilding in light of realism and pragmatism : the Cambodian experience / Sorpong Peou ; Revisiting the "liberal peace" thesis applied to Central America : new insights for and against the Wilsonian approach / Carlo Nasi.

xi, 392 p. : tables ; 23 cm.

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