International Peacebuilding and Local Involvement

This book interrogates the common perception that liberal peace is in crisis and raises (and answers) the question: can the local turn save liberal peacebuilding?

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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