A critical assessment of current liberal approaches to post-conflict statebuilding with constructive suggestions as to where improvements might be made. Newly available in paperback.

AUTHOR APPROVED Review of the hardback edition: 'This book provides a set of illuminating insights (both empirical and theoretical) from the study of a series of post-Cold War "liberal peace" interventions.' David Chandler, /International Affairs/ This book examines the nature of 'liberal peace': the common aim of the international community's approach to post-conflict statebuilding. Adopting a particularly critical stance on this one-size-fits-all paradigm, it explores the process by breaking down liberal peace theory into its constituent parts: democratisation, free market reform and development, human rights, civil society, and the rule of law. Readers are provided with critically and theoretically informed empirical access to the 'technology' of the liberal peacebuilding process, particularly in regard to Cambodia, Kosovo, East Timor, Bosnia and the Middle East. Key Features *Critically interrogates the theory, experience, and current outcomes of liberal peacebuilding *Includes five empirically-informed case studies: Cambodia, Kosovo, East Timor, Bosnia and the Middle East *Focuses on the key institutional aspects of liberal peacebuilding and key international actors *Assesses the local outcomes of liberal peacebuilding Oliver P. Richmond is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. He is author of Mediating in Cyprus (1998), Maintaining Order, Making Peace (2002), The Transformation of Peace (2005) and Peace in IR (2008). Jason Franks is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is author of Rethinking the Roots of Terrorism (2006).