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"This book aims to outline and promote an ethnographic approach to evaluating international peacebuilding interventions in transitional states. While the evaluation of peacebuilding and transitional justice efforts has been a growing concern in recent years, too often evaluations assess projects based on locally irrelevant measures, reinforce the status quo distribution of power in transitional situations, and uncritically accept the implicit conceptions of the funders, planners, and administrators of such projects. This book argues that evaluating the effects of peacebuilding interventions demands an understanding of the local and culturally variable context of intervention"--Product description

Emphasizing the regional component of peace- and statebuilding, this book provides an in-depth empirical analysis of external engagement, primarily in Sri Lanka and also in Myanmar. Sánchez-Cacicedo argues that though identified as 'global' forms of involvement, a liberal peacebuilding approach and Western-led international interventions in statebuilding processes lack the necessary legitimacy at local and regional levels. The book specifically explores the lack of consensus between non-regional and regional actors involved in the 2002 peace process and its implications in Sri Lanka; it further looks into the similar situation of external involvement in Myanmar's statebuilding process. Both case studies provide a rich contextual insight into the specificity of external engagement in Asia, against the backdrop of a globally rising China and India, and their evolving neighbourhood policies. "Building States, Building Peace" highlights how the regional can prevail over the global structure, reconfiguring our views on the optimal ways in which to achieve peace- and statebuilding.

1. Introduction 1. - 2. The Framing of Peacebuilding Agency - From a Monodimensional Towards a Spatial Understanding of Agency 16. - 3. Why culture? 50. - 4. The EU's Spaces of Agency in the Bosnian Peacebuilding Context 66. - 5. Local Spaces of Agency in Bosnia 125. - 6. Spaces of agency to analyse political transformation: Cyprus and South Africa 147. - 7. Conclusion 164

1. The Value and Values of Diplomacy 1. - 2. Creating Value: A Psychological Theory of Diplomacy 22. - 3. Tabling the Issue: Two Franco-British Negotiations 58. - 4. Setting the Table: German Reassurance, British Brokering, and French Understanding 87. - 5. Getting to the Table: The Diplomatic Perils of the Exchange of Notes 117. - 6. Cards on the Table: The Treaty of Mutual Guarantee and the "Spirit of Locarno" 137. - 7. Turning the Tables: Reparations, Early Evacuation, and the Hague Conference 162. - 8. Additional Value: The Rise and Fall of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process 188. - 9. Searching for Stresemann: The Lessons of the 1920s for Diplomacy and the Middle East Peace Process 236