1st Edition

International Peacebuilding and Local Involvement A Liberal Renaissance?

By Dahlia Simangan Copyright 2019
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

This book interrogates the common perception that liberal peace is in crisis and explores the question: can the local turn save liberal peacebuilding? Presenting a case for a liberal renaissance in peacebuilding, the work interrogates the assumptions behind the popular perception that liberal peace is in crisis. It re-examines three of the cases igniting the debate – Cambodia, Kosovo,... Read more

Introduction  1. Locating a Middle-Ground between Liberal and Local Trajectories in Peacebuilding  2. Cambodia: Politicized Involvement in a Compromised Peacebuilding  3. Kosovo: Superficial Involvement in a Co-opted Peacebuilding  4. Timor-Leste: Exclusive Involvement in a Fragile Peacebuilding  5. The Perils of Liberal Peacebuilding and Pitfalls of Local Involvement  Conclusion

Biography



Dahlia Simangan is a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral research fellow at the United Nations University in Tokyo. She holds a PhD in International, Political, and Strategic Studies from the Australian National University.