Rethinking the liberal peace :|bexternal models and local alternatives /|cedited by Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh

This book presents a critical analysis of the liberal peace project and offers possible alternatives and models. In the past decade, the model used for reconstructing societies after conflicts has been based on liberal assumptions about the pacifiying effects of 'open markets' and 'open societies'. Yet, despite the vast resources invested in helping establish the precepts of this liberal peace, outcomes have left much to be desired. The book argues that failures in the liberal peace project are not only due to efficiency problems related to its adaptation in adverse local environments, but mostly due to problems of legitimacy of turning an ideal into a doctrine for action. The aim of the book is to scrutinize assumptions about the value of democratization and marketization and realities on the ground by combining theoretical discussions with empirical evidence from key post-conflict settings such as Iraq and Afghanistan. These show the disparities that exist between the ideals and the reality of the liberal peace project, as seen by external peacebuilders and domestic actors. The book then proposes various alternatives and modifications to better accommodate local perspectives, values and agency in attempts to forge a new consensus. This book will be of great interest to students of peacebuilding/peacekeeping, statebuilding, war and conflict studies, international security and IR. Machine Generated Contents Note: Pt. I Theory And Critics Of The Liberal Peace -- 1. Open Societies, Open Markets: Assumptions And Illusions / Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh -- 2. Becoming Liberal, Unbecoming Liberalism: Liberal--local Hybridity Via The Everyday As A Response To The Paradoxes Of Liberal Peacebuilding / Oliver P. Richmond -- 3. Peace, Self-governance And International Engagement: From Neo-colonial To Post-colonial Peacebuilding / Kristoffer Liden -- Pt. Ii Liberal Democracy -- 4. The Liberal Peace: Statebuilding, Democracy And Local Ownership / David Chandler -- 5. Democracy And Security: A Shotgun Marriage? / Robin Luckham -- 6. What's Law Got To Do With It? The Role Of Law In Post-conflict Democratization And Its (flawed) Assumptions / Michael Schoiswohl -- 7. No Such Thing As Cosmopolitanism: Field-dependent Consequences In International Administrative Governance And Criminal Justice / Nicholas Dorn -- Pt. Iii Market Liberalism -- 8. Curing Strangeness In The Political Economy Of Peacebuilding: Traces Of Liberalism And Resistance / Michael Pugh -- 9. Economic Dimensions Of The Liberal Peace And Its Implications For Conflict In Developing Countries / Syed Mansoob Murshed -- Pt. Iv Case Studies -- 10. Reconstructing Post-2006 Lebanon: A Distorted Market / Roger Macginty -- 11. Is Liberal Democracy Possible In Iraq? / Patrick Tom -- 12. Liberal Peace And The Dialogue Of The Deaf In Afghanistan / Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh -- Conclusion: Typologies And Modifications Proposed By Critical Approaches / Oliver P. Richmond. Edited By Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Cover 1 Rethinking the Liberal Peace 6 Copyright 7 Contents 8 Preface 10 List of contributors 12 IntroductionLiberal peace in dispute 16 Notes 29 Part: I Theory and critics of the liberal peace 32 1. Open societies, open markets: assumptions and illusions 34 2. Becoming liberal, unbecoming liberalism: liberal–local hybridity via the everyday as a response to the paradoxes of liberal peacebuilding 52 3. Peace, self- governance and international engagement: from neo- colonial to post- colonial peacebuilding 72 Part II: Liberal democracy 90 4. The liberal peace: statebuilding, democracy and local ownership 92 5. Democracy and security: a shotgun marriage? 104 6. What’s law got to do with it? The role of law in post- conflict democratization and its (flawed) assumptions 125 7. No such thing as cosmopolitanism: Field- dependent consequences in international administrative governance and criminal justice 143 Part III: Market liberalism 160 8. Curing strangeness in the political economy of peacebuilding: traces of liberalism and resistance 162 9. Economic dimensions of the liberal peace and its implications for conflict in developing countries 179 Part IV: Case studies 194 10. Reconstructing post- 2006 Lebanon: a distorted market 196 11. Is liberal democracy possible in Iraq? 210 12. Liberal peace and the dialogue of the deaf in Afghanistan 221 Conclusion: typologies and modifications proposed by critical approaches 236 List of acronyms and abbreviations 257 Index 260