Deferring peace in international statebuilding: difference, resilience and critique

Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: The disillusionment with liberal peace: Institutions to bridge a divided world -- Chapter 1: Introduction: the last agony of 'liberal peace' -- The structure and argument: difference, resilience, critique and vorarephilia -- Part I The disillusionment with liberal peace: institutions to bridge a divided world -- Part II From agony to love: vorarephilia at the end of liberal peace -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: The disillusionment with democratisation -- Introduction -- The ancestors of liberal peace -- Rethinking liberal peace after its failures -- From democratisation to statebuilding -- Addressing the dangers of democracy: institution-buildingto modify informal constraints -- Withering democracy, welcoming statebuilding in Bosnia -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: The shifting governance of post-conflict Kosovo -- Introduction -- Building ethnic institutions and the deferral of status -- The academic critiques of statebuilding in Kosovo -- De-emphasising ethnicity and making the status dispute irrelevant -- Unending supervision to correct a psychosocial dysfunction -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part II: From agony to love: Vorarephilia at the end of liberal peace -- Chapter 4: Local ownership and deferral -- Introduction -- The rise of local ownership -- Rethinking 'local ownership': making self-government unthinkable -- Criticising ownership at the cost of equality -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Resilience and deferral -- Introduction -- Liberal peace and the dilemma of promoting peace in a diverse world -- The critique of liberal peace: 'writing against culture' -- Fostering resilience and peace 'to come' -- Culture as a valuable resource to strengthen resilience