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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction: a Framework to Assess Liberal Peace Transitions -- 1. Cambodia: Liberal Hubris and Virtual Peace -- 2. Bosnia: Between Partition and Pluralism -- 3. Liberal Peace in East Timor: the Emperors' New Clothes? -- 4. Co-opting the Liberal Peace: Untying the Gordian Knot in Kosovo -- 5. Building/Rejecting the Liberal Peace: State Consolidation and Liberal Failure in the Middle East -- Co nclusion: Evaluating the Achievements of the Liberal Peace and Revitalising a Virtual Peace -- Select Bibliography -- Index

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

The liberal peace framework aims to regulate, govern and empower the individual in a democratic and pluralist milieu. Yet liberal peace-building, even on the scale and depth employed in the international governance of Kosovo, is susceptible to local cooption, particularly where one group can adopt the language of the liberal peace and has strong support and credibility from the international community. This has led to a focus on achieving statehood for Kosovan Albanians, the marginalization of other identity groups and their agendas, and consequently the undermining of the pluralist goals of peace-building with the implicit cooperation of liberal peace-builders. Given Serb opposition to statehood for Kosovo, there is a danger that liberal peace-building will encourage the partition of Kosovo rather than create a pluralist polity. The article illustrates the susceptibility of liberal peace-building to local cooption.