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Why does peace fail? More precisely, why do some countries that show every sign of having successfully emerged from civil war fall once again into armed conflict? What explains why peace "sticks" after some wars but not others?. In this illuminating study, Charles T. Call examines the factors behind fifteen cases of civil war recurrence in Africa, Asia, the Caucasus, and Latin America. He argues that widely touted explanations of civil war -- such as poverty, conflict over natural resources, and weak states -- are far less important than political exclusion. Call's study shows that i

Introduction / Charles T. Call -- The mugging of a success story: justice and security reform in El Salvador / Charles T. Call -- Justice and security reform after intervention: Haiti / Sandra Beidas, Colin Granderson, and Rachel Neild -- Business as usual? justice and policing reform in postwar Guatemala / William D. Stanley -- Criminal justice after Apartheid : police and justice reform in South Africa / Janine Rauch -- Post-genocide justice and security reform: Rwanda / Charles Mironko and Ephrem Rurangwa -- Too little, too late? Justice and security reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Michael H. Doyle -- From elation to disappointment: justice and security reform in Kosovo / Colette Rausch -- Lawyers, guns, and money : justice and security reform in East Timor / Ronald A. West -- Engendering justice and security after war / Tracy Fitzsimmons -- Conclusion : constructing justice and security after war / Charles T. Call

The article advances conceptual alternatives to the "failed state." It provides reasons why the concept is deficient, showing especially how counterproductive it is to aggregate states as diverse as Colombia, Malawi, Somalia, Iraq, Haiti, and Tajikistan. I argue for distinguishing among capacity gaps, security gaps, and legitimacy gaps that states experience. Importantly, I show that these gaps often do not coincide in a given country, and that the logical responses to each of the three gaps diverge in significant ways. I offer brief case examples of the logic of response to the gaps and of the tensions that must be managed among them. The article advances the debate over an important and under-theorized emergent concept in global politics. [Reprinted by permission; copyright Sage Publications Ltd. & ECPR-European Consortium for Political Research.]