1st Edition

Liberal Peacebuilding and Global Governance Beyond the Metropolis

By David Roberts Copyright 2011
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the limits to cosmopolitan liberal peacebuilding caused by its preoccupation with the values and assumptions of neoliberal global governance. The peace people experience is determined by the processes privileged in peacebuilding. This book is about four things that shape the processes involved. First, it is a critique of orthodox postconflict peacebuilding. It takes the... Read more

Preface  Introduction: Global Governance and Postconflict Peacebuilding  1. Postconflict Peacebuilding  2. Crisis of Institutionalism  3. Crises of state and Institutional Memory  4. Crises of Legitimacy and Dispossession  5. From Third to Fourth Generation Peacebuilding  6. Fourth Generation Peacebuilding  7. Legitimacy, Popular Peace and Global Governance.  Conclusion

Biography

David Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Ulster. He is author of three books on conflict issues.