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Failed Statebuilding : Intervention, the State, and the Dynamics of Peace Formation / Oliver Richmond.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richmond, Oliver, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nation-building--Developing countries.
- Nation-building.
- Peace-building--Developing countries.
- Peace-building.
- Intervention (International law).
- Nation-building--Philosophy.
- Peace-building--Philosophy.
- World politics--1989-.
- World politics.
- Developing countries--Foreign relations--Western countries.
- Developing countries.
- Developing countries--Politics and government.
- Western countries--Relations--Developing countries.
- Western countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (293 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Western struggles-and failures-to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether they make the lives of their intended beneficiaries better or worse. In this groundbreaking book, Oliver Richmond asks why statebuilding has been so hard to achieve, and argues that a large part of the problem has been Westerners' failure to understand or engage with what local peoples actually want and need. He interrogates the liberal peacebuilding industry, asking what it assumes, what it is getting wrong, and how it could be more effective.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Limits of Peacebuilding and Statebuilding
- I. The Legacy of State Formation
- II. Statebuilding: Failed by Design
- III. Liberal Peacebuilding
- IV. The Dynamics of Peace Formation
- V. Peace Formation versus Intervention
- Conclusion: International Peace Enablement
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-300-21013-2
- OCLC:
- 892911044
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